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Dharmatāśīla Dharmatāśīla was an Indian paṇḍit who collaborated on Tibetan translations during the early ninth century. He was also involved in the composition

Vidyākaraprabha Vidyākaraprabha was an Indian translator active during the Tibetan imperial period. He is credited with collaborating on the translations

ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་ Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa(1011 - 1064) Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyelwa was a prominent Tibetan translator of the early eleventh century

Tibetan canon states that both Sanskrit and Chinese were used by the translators, and that while it refers to Tong Ācārya as an Indian paṇḍit (rgya gar

Text Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab: Theg chen rgyud bla ma'i don bsdus pa The first Tibetan commentary written on the Uttaratantra by the translator of the only

prominent Tibetan scholars and translators of the day received teachings. Most notably he taught the Ratnagotravibhāga to Ngok Lotsāwa and Tsen Khawoche, which

untranslated) commentaries from the Tibetan Kagyü tradition. Most important, the translator’s introduction investigates in detail the meditative tradition of using

Sanskrit, "Bejeweled Intelligence," name of an Indian scholar and Chinese translator who lived during the fifth and sixth centuries CE. He was especially renowned

འགོས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་དཔལ་ Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal(1392 - 1481)  Born in: grong nag me dgu ('phyongs rgyas) Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Water Monkey

verses, explanatory verses, and prose commentary, the Chinese and Tibetan translators and commentators considered the root and explanatory verses to be one

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

symposiums. His publications include A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsawa´s Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga (Wisdom, 2008) and A

translated by: (1) Atiśa and Nagtso Lotsāwa Tsültrim Gyalwa (1011–1064), (2) Sajjana and Ngog Lotsāwa, (3) Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Tra (born 1055), (4) Marpa

Tibetan commentary on this text by Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal, best known as the author of the Blue Annals. Gö Lotsāwa, whose teachers spanned the spectrum of

པ་ཚབ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཉི་མ་གྲགས་པ་ Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa(b. 1055 - ) Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa was a major translator of Madhyamaka texts into Tibet. A

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

Gawai Dorje(b. 11th Century - ) A contemporary of Ngok Lotsāwa and Tsen Khawoche, he was a translator that studied in Kashmir in the 11th Century, where he

ཡར་ཀླུངས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ Yarlung Lotsāwa(1242 - 1346) Yarlung Lotsāwa was a translator of་over twenty texts preserved in the Tibetan canon, in

ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་སེང་གེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན Lotsawa Senge Gyaltsen(b. 10th/11th century - ) Lotsāwa Senge Gyaltsen was a Tibetan translator who lived in the 10th-11th centuries

through extensive quotations in the Ratnagotravibhāga (initial Tibetan translators of the Ratnagotravibhāga did not recognize the quotations and so failed

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

Vairocanarakṣita, as well as being the full ordination name of the famous Tibetan translator Vairocana (bai ro tsa na). Of the two Indians, the first was an 11th century

Śīlendrabodhi was an Indian translator active in the eighth century. Among his work, he collaborated with the prolific Tibetan translator Yeshe De on Vasubandhu's

teacher and collaborator for several influential Tibetan scholars and translators that spent time studying in Kashmir in the 11th Century. According to

the Ratnagotravibhāga and its eleventh-century Tibetan translator and commentator Ngok Lotsāwa with the necessary information to clarify what Kano believes

13th century)  Born in: Tolho (stod lho) Shongton Lotsāwa Dorje Gyeltsen was a prominent translator who translated the complete Tibetan poetry system from

of the most highly regarded Tibetan translators and interpreters today. Erik has been the assistant and translator for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons

SOURCE TEXT The first Tibetan commentary written on the Uttaratantra by the translator of the only extant Tibetan translation of the treatise. Furthermore, since

Asu Kyemé Dorje, the First Karmapa, Lama Shang Dsöndrü Tragpa, and Tropu Lotsāwa Jampa Bal.       In the Tengyur, besides the above sūtric works authored

century - ) Indian Paṇḍita who lived in the 11th century and was one of Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's teachers, instructing him in "the Abhisamayālaṃkāra together

Palgyi Lhunpo Pelgyi Lhunpo was a Tibetan monk and translator active during the ninth century. He is credited with the translation of seven texts in the

the founder-director of Lotsāwa House, a virtual library of translations from Tibetan. His publications include (as co-translator) Mind in Comfort and Ease

bzang po);Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་;Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba;Mahājana;Lotsawa Senge Gyaltsen;ལོ

Ratnagotravibhāga. Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Studies in Indian and

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

that incorporates equivalent English terms of present-day teachers and translators of Dzogchen. (Source: Back Cover) Barron, Richard, and Susanne Fairclough

the historical literature of Tibet composed by a well known scholar and translator Gos lo-tsa-ba-gZon-nu dpal (1392-1481 A.D.). It is the main source of

commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra in which he is also recorded as the translator. Book Buddha-Nature and Emptiness An essential study of a key text that

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated

Vienna, where he is currently completing his MA thesis on the life of Gö Lotsawa Shönu Pal. Jamie provides administrative support for the Translation Teams

Vanaratna and a collection of Gö Lotsāwa’s letters and statements to others.       Despite his strong Kagyü affiliations, Gö Lotsāwa maintained a nonsectarian

ba grags pa; Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa;པ་ཚབ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཉི་མ་གྲགས་པ་;pa tshab lo tsA ba nyi ma grags pa;Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita;Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འ

Vajrayana Buddhism for over fifteen years. With her husband, author and translator Erik Pema Kungsang, she founded and currently runs Rangjung Yeshe Publications

bzang po);Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་;Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba;Mahājana;Lotsawa Senge Gyaltsen;ལོ

tshul khrims;Karmapa, 8th Text Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab: springs yig bdud rtsi'i thig le Instruction by Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab written as a letter of

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

parenthetical information derived from various commentaries on the text that the translators use to explicate the root verses. The work is a draft compilation and

of the main Tibetan students of Atiśa and the uncle of the famed translator Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Lekpai Sherab founded the influential monastic university

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated

Translated Quotes Foreword by His Holiness the Karmapa vii Editor’s Preface ix Translator’s Introduction 1 Ornament of Precious Liberation: A Wish-Fulfilling Gem

affiliation Dharmachakra Translation Committee · workplace affiliation Lotsawa House · secondary affiliation

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

with the Tibetan disciples of the Kashmiri master Sajjana—namely, Ngok Lotsāwa and Tsen Khawoche, respectively. Therefore, these two are also commonly

Ratnagotravibhāga. Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Studies in Indian and

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

and Death in Tiber (ca. 1092-1109)42 3 rNgog lo's Work as a Translator45 3.1 Tibetan Translators: Some General Remarks45 3.2 Works Translated or Revised by

In Sanskrit, lit. "Protector of Giving"; one of the last great Indian translators of Buddhist texts into Chinese. A native of Oḍḍiyāna in the Gandhāra region

learning in Tibet, and the intense literary activity of the Tibetan learned translators (lo-tsa-ba)—Pal-tseg (dPal-brtsegs) and others by whom a great number

28ac and the well-known literalness of Tibetan translators, it seems rather unlikely that the translator here just produced a very free rendering of the

commentary on the actual text of the original. (Kenneth and Katia Holmes, translator's introduction, 3–4) Holmes, Ken, and Katia Holmes, trans. The Changeless

bzang po);Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་;Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba;Mahājana;Lotsawa Senge Gyaltsen;ལོ

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

commentaries, by Vasubandhu, the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, and Gö Lotsāwa, as well as excerpts from all other available commentaries on Maitreya’s

the historical literature of Tibet composed by a well known scholar and translator Gos lo-tsa-ba-gZon-nu dpal (1392-1481 A.D.). It is the main source of

Ratnagotravibhāga. Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Gö Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga. Studies in Indian and

Basic Meaning: The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained

ba grags pa; Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa;པ་ཚབ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཉི་མ་གྲགས་པ་;pa tshab lo tsA ba nyi ma grags pa;Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita;Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འ

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

Nagtso Lotsāwa, Ngog Lotsāwa, Patsab Lotsāwa, and (once) a Lhotragpa Dharma Sengé, as well as frequently referring to comments by Dölpopa, Ngog Lotsāwa, Chaba

nevertheless useful to try and understand the reasons behind the choices that translators are inevitably forced to make when bringing a text into a new target language

with the Tibetan disciples of the Kashmiri master Sajjana—namely, Ngok Lotsāwa and Tsen Khawoche, respectively. Therefore, these two are also commonly

Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra, and the Madhyāntavibhāga, were translated by the translators Paltseg (Dpal brtsegs), Yeshé Dé (Ye shes sde), and others during the

including Ngok Lotsāwa, Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen, the Third Karmapa, Dölpopa, Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, Gyaltsap Je, Bodong Paṇchen, Gö Lotsāwa, Śākya Chokden,

Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra, and the Madhyāntavibhāga, were translated by the translators Paltseg (Dpal brtsegs), Yeshé Dé (Ye shes sde), and others during the

ba grags pa; Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa;པ་ཚབ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཉི་མ་གྲགས་པ་;pa tshab lo tsA ba nyi ma grags pa;Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita;Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འ

on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantraśāstra), as well as covering Ngok Lotsawa's commentarial text and his philosophical positions related with other Tibetan

པོ་ནཱ་གརྫུ་ན་;སློབ་དཔོན་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་;Ārya Nāgārjuna; Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita;Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa;ནག་འཚོ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་བ་;Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul

" stemming from Ngok Lotsāwa, both students of the Kashmiri paṇḍit Sajjana, who translated the sūtra into Tibetan with Ngok Lotsāwa's assistance. Although

་;sa dza na;paN+Di ta sa dza na;sa dzdza na;པཎྜི་ཏ་ས་ཛ་ན་;ས་ཛཛ་ན་;Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab;རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་;rngog blo ldan shes rab;rngog lo tsA ba;lo

the historical literature of Tibet composed by a well known scholar and translator Gos lo-tsa-ba-gZon-nu dpal (1392-1481 A.D.). It is the main source of

Continuum and its commentary. Then, Ngok Lotsāwa, Patsab Lotsāwa, and Yarlung Lotsāwa translated it. It is said Jonang Lotsāwa also translated the main text and

parenthetical information derived from various commentaries on the text that the translators use to explicate the root verses. The work is a draft compilation and

About the Book Texts Translated Quotes Foreword by Yangsi Kalu Rinpochéxi Translator's Introduction1 An Overview of The Treasury of Knowledge4 Jamgön Kongtrul

Sanskrit Buddhist Canon More on this item Close Nāgārjuna Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa Dānapāla Cover image: Add a verse 1 Access this text online

Nyingma tradition and the other schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the translator and author of Mipham’s Beacon of Certainty (1999) and of a forthcoming

served as a translator, interpreter, and Buddhist teacher mainly in Europe, India, and Nepal. Since 1999, he has acted as one of the main translators and teachers

system is Mahamudra. The lineage of Mahamudra chiefly comes through Marpa Lotsawa's two root gurus, Naropa and Maitripa. The texts explained here — A Summary

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, both of whom were important early Kagyu masters and translators that travelled south to receive teachings which they imported and propagated

center (madhyama).       In that vein, as a proficient Sanskrit translator, Gö Lotsāwa Shönnu Bal (1392–1481) explains a number of Sanskrit synonyms of

the Buddha’s disciple Shariputra, the great adept Saraha, and Khyeuchung Lotsawa, one of Padmasambhava’s twenty-five key pupils. He never became a monk and

existence. Mathes compares the Eighth Karmapa's positions to those of Go Lotsāwa and mainstream Jonang. Mathes argues that although the Eighth Karmapa's

between Rinchen Yeshé and Dölpopa, such as the former’s asserting (like Ngog Lotsāwa and others but unlike Dölpopa) that all sentient beings are pervaded by

is traditionally attributed to Asaṅga) and a colophon indicating the translators: Through whatever inconceivable merit I attained Due to explaining the

Continuum and its commentary. Then, Ngok Lotsāwa, Patsab Lotsāwa, and Yarlung Lotsāwa translated it. It is said Jonang Lotsāwa also translated the main text and

the intermediate state. Below are links to media in which teachers and translators answer this question in various ways. Video On How to Approach Buddha-Nature

and at the same time illustrative of the methods of the Indian-Chinese translators. (Suzuki, preface, v–vi) Read more here . . . Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro

verses, explanatory verses, and prose commentary, the Chinese and Tibetan translators and commentators considered the root and explanatory verses to be one

resources for translators and scholars. With Tsadra Foundation, Marcus developed the Translation & Transmission Conference series and the Lotsawa Workshops

New Translation (འགྱུར་གསར་མ་) and old Kadampa tradition. A prominent translator and scholar of the 11th century, Ngok Loden Sherab taught philosophy,

from a stūpa after seeing a light shining from a crack in it. When Zhama Lotsāwa Senge Gyeltsen translated Distinguishing Phenomena and Their Nature, the

that incorporates equivalent English terms of present-day teachers and translators of Dzogchen. (Source: Back Cover) Barron, Richard, and Susanne Fairclough

that incorporates equivalent English terms of present-day teachers and translators of Dzogchen. (Source: Back Cover) Barron, Richard, and Susanne Fairclough

on this website. Please use the red filter to select items by author, translator, editor, title, topic, or citation. Do not use diacritics. You can click

teachings that was later transmitted to the great translators Jamba Lingba, Gö Lotsāwa, Trimkang Lotsāwa Sönam Gyaltsen (1424–1482), and others, when the

that according to Ngog Lotsāwa and Chaba Chökyi Sengé, the three are "rock salt," "fish broth," and "mercury," while Patsab Lotsāwa speaks of "alkali," "the

Gö Lotsāwa on the Tsen Tradition of the Dharma Treatises of Maitreya Roerich, George N., and Gendün Chöpel. "The 'Five Treatises of the Blessed Maitreya'

ོ་ཙཱ་བ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱིས་རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་བསྒྱུར། One Yarlung Lotsāwa, according to Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal, is said to have translated the Ultimate Continuum

characteristics. The definitive commentary on this text is that of Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab (Rngog lo tsA ba blo ldan shes rab, 1059–1109), which is still

Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga." In A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Go Lotsāwa's Mahāmudrā Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga, 25–34. Boston: Wisdom

including Ngok Lotsāwa, Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen, the Third Karmapa, Dölpopa, Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, Gyaltsap Je, Bodong Paṇchen, Gö Lotsāwa, Śākya Chokden,

State University of New York Press, 1991. Kramer, Ralf. The Great Tibetan Translator: Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059–1109). Collectanea Himalayica

his approach to realization. He was also one of the last great Tibetan translators of Sanskrit tantric texts. Tāranātha was respectful of all forms of authentic

since Dölpopa, Karma Könshön (a student of the Third Karmapa), Rongtön, Gö Lotsāwa, and others quote and comment on it extensively. DP and C reverse the order

that according to Ngog Lotsāwa and Chaba Chökyi Sengé, the three are "rock salt," "fish broth," and "mercury," while Patsab Lotsāwa speaks of "alkali," "the

dpal's Commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā A critical edition of Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal's Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi 'grel bshad de

that incorporates equivalent English terms of present-day teachers and translators of Dzogchen. (Source: Back Cover) Barron, Richard, and Susanne Fairclough

since Dölpopa, Karma Könshön (a student of the Third Karmapa), Rongtön, Gö Lotsāwa, and others quote and comment on it extensively. DP and C reverse the order