Rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan

རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen(1147 - 1216) 

Born in:

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sa skya

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Female Fire Rabbit, 3^rd sexagenary cycle.

Jetsun Drakpa Gyeltsen of the aristocratic Khon family was the third of the five men credited with founding the Sakya order. He was also the Fifth Sakya Tridzin, or throne holder. His father Sachen Kunga Nyingpo and his elder brother Sonam Tsemo were the first and second Sakya patriarchs. Drakpa Gyeltsen was instrumental in the early recording and compiling of the Lamdre teachings that form the basis of the Sakya tradition.

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The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows

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With its emphasis on the concept of buddha-nature, or the ultimate nature of mind, the Uttaratantra is a classical Buddhist treatise that lays out an early map of the Mahāyāna path to enlightenment. Tsering Wangchuk unravels the history of this important Indic text in Tibet by examining numerous Tibetan commentaries and other exegetical texts on the treatise that emerged between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. These commentaries explored such questions as: Is the buddha-nature teaching found in the Uttaratantra literally true, or does it have to be interpreted differently to understand its ultimate meaning? Does it explicate ultimate truth that is inherently enlightened or ultimate truth that is empty only of independent existence? Does the treatise teach ultimate nature of mind according to the Cittamātra or the Madhyamaka School of Mahāyāna? By focusing on the diverse interpretations that different textual communities employed to make sense of the Uttaratantra, Wangchuk provides a necessary historical context for the development of the text in Tibet. (Source: SUNY Press)

Wangchuk, Tsering. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017.

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Other names

• ས་སྐྱ་རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• sa skya rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• shAk+ya'i dge bsnyen grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• shAk+ya'i dge bsnyen theg pa mchog gi rnal 'byor pa grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• Sakya Tridzin, 5th · other names

Affiliations & relations

• Son of Sa chen kun dga' snying po and younger brother of bsod nams rtse mo · familial relation
• Sakya · religious affiliation
• sa chen kun dga' snying po · teacher
• bsod nams rtse mo · teacher
• Byang chub sems dpa' zla ba rgyal mtshan · teacher
• tshul khrims grags · teacher
• sum pa lo tsA ba · teacher
• Jayasena · teacher
• Sa skya paN+Di ta · student
• Skyer sgang chos kyi seng+ge · student
• gtsang ston brtson 'grus grags pa · student

Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt. चित्तमात्र Tib. སེམས་ཙམ་

Ngok Tradition - Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. རྔོག་ལུགས་

Tsen Tradition - Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. བཙན་ལུགས་