Kadampa Masters

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Chekawa Yeshe Dorje                                                                                                                                                                                          Chekawa Yeshe Dorje


Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (Wyl. 'chad kha pa ye shes rdo rje) (1101-1175) — a famous Kadampa master renowned as the author of the Seven Points of Mind Training.

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Chengawa Tsultrim Bar                                                                                                                                                                                          Chengawa Tsultrim Bar


Chengawa Tsultrim Bar (Wyl. spyan snga tshul khrims 'bar) (1033/8-1103) — one of the Three Brothers, the main disciples of Dromtönpa Gyalwé Jungné. He was the main holder of Dromtönpa's lineage of teachings on emptiness, practice advice (Wyl. gdams ngag) and tantra.

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Dromtönpa Gyalwé Jungné                                                                                                                                                                                          Dromtönpa Gyalwé Jungné


Dromtönpa Gyalwé Jungné (Wyl. 'brom ston pa rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas) (1004/5-1064) — the main Tibetan disciple and lineage-holder of Atisha. He founded Radreng Monastery and had countless students, the chief of whom were Putowa Rinchen Sal, Chengawa Tsultrim Bar and Phuchungwa Shyönnu Gyaltsen.
According to Dezhung Rinpoche, he was also known as Geshe Tönpa and Radrengpa.[

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Geshe Langri Tangpa                                                                                                                                                                                          Geshe Langri Tangpa


Geshe Langri Tangpa (Tib. དགེ་བཤེས་གླང་རི་ཐང་པ་, Wyl. dge bshes glang ri thang pa) (1054-1123 ), aka. Langthangpa Dorje Senge (གླང་ཐང་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེངྒེ་glang thang pa rdo rje seng+ge) — a famous Kadampa master and disciple of Potowa Rinchen Sal, who is best known for composing the Eight Verses of Training the Mind.
Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche says:

Among the Kadampa masters, there was one called Geshe Langri Thangpa, who was an incredible teacher and a really great master. He is said to have set the standard for meditation on the defects of samsara. In fact, he was even known as ‘Langthangpa Gloomy Face,’ because he never ever smiled. Except, that is, on one occasion when a mouse tried to move a piece of turquoise on his mandala plate. The mouse was trying desperately to push the turquoise but could not manage, so he called over another mouse to come and help him and together they tried to move it. That made Langri Thangpa smile, it is said, but apart from that, he had a permanently gloomy expression, and so people used to call him “gloomy face.” Once, it is said, his attendant told him how people were calling him “gloomy face” because he never smiled, and he replied, “When I think about all the endless suffering in the different realms of samsara, how could I ever possibly smile?”

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Gyalsé Tokmé Zangpo                                                                                                                                                                                          
Gyalse Thogme Zangpo


Gyalsé Ngulchu Tokmé (Tib. རྒྱལ་སྲས་དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་, Wyl. rgyal sras dngul chu thogs med) or Tokmé Zangpo (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་, Wyl. thogs med bzang po) (1297-1371), was born in Puljung, south west of the great Sakya Monastery. He was born in the Wood Sheep year of the fifth sexagenary cycle. An extremely learned scholar, he studied an infinite number of teachings from all traditions. His every instant was devoted to the Dharma which he spread through composition, teaching and debate.
He could teach with total confidence on any subject or text. Also, he was able fully to take upon himself the suffering of others and to give them his wellbeing, and without any expectation as to the result, he was extremely generous to all, particularly the poor, the destitute and the suffering. He met buddhas and deities such as Avalokiteshvara and Tara face to face. He taught many of the greatest teachers of his time in Central Tibet, such as Khenchen Lochen Changchup Tsemo (1303-1380), Butön Rinchen Drup (1290-1364), great Sakya masters and so on. He passed away at the age of 74 amidst wondrous signs of realization.

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Ngok Loden Sherab                                                                                                                                                                                          Ngok Loden Sherab


Ngok Loden Sherab (Tib. རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. rngog blo ldan shes rab) (1059-1109) — one of the most famous translators in Tibetan history. He was the nephew of Ngok Lekpé Sherab. He revised the translation of the Bodhicharyavatara and composed a commentary on it.
He also translated Maitreya’s Uttaratantra Shastra and Asanga’s commentary with the pandita Sajjana, as well as Vasubandhu’s commentary on the Dharmadharmata-vibhanga. With Bhavyaraja, he translated Prajnakaragupta’s commentary on Dharmakirti’s Pramanavarttika. His many other translations and revisions include the Abhisamayalankara and commentaries by Vimuktasena and Prajñakaramati; Dignaga’s Prajnaparamita-samgraha karika with Triratnadasa’s commentary; and Dharmakirti’s treatises, Pramanavinishchaya and Nyayabindu.

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Ngok Loden Sherab                                                                                                                                                                                          Ngok Loden Sherab


Ngok Loden Sherab (Tib. རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. rngog blo ldan shes rab) (1059-1109) — one of the most famous translators in Tibetan history. He was the nephew of Ngok Lekpé Sherab. He revised the translation of the Bodhicharyavatara and composed a commentary on it.
He also translated Maitreya’s Uttaratantra Shastra and Asanga’s commentary with the pandita Sajjana, as well as Vasubandhu’s commentary on the Dharmadharmata-vibhanga. With Bhavyaraja, he translated Prajnakaragupta’s commentary on Dharmakirti’s Pramanavarttika. His many other translations and revisions include the Abhisamayalankara and commentaries by Vimuktasena and Prajñakaramati; Dignaga’s Prajnaparamita-samgraha karika with Triratnadasa’s commentary; and Dharmakirti’s treatises, Pramanavinishchaya and Nyayabindu.

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Phuchungwa Shyönnu Gyaltsen                                                                                                                                                                                          Phuchungwa Shyönnu Gyaltsen


Phuchungwa Shyönnu Gyaltsen (Wyl. phu chung ba gzhon nu rgyal mtshan) (1031—1106) — one of the Three Brothers, the main disciples of Dromtönpa Gyalwé Jungné. He was the main holder of Dromtönpa's lineage of teachings on the four noble truths and secret precepts (Tib. mengak; Wyl. man ngag).

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Potowa Rinchen Sal                                                                                                                                                                                          Geshe Potowa


Potowa Rinchen Sal (Wyl. po to ba rin chen gsal) (1027-1105) — one of the three main students of Dromtönpa, and the one who particularly received all of his main writings (Wyl. gzhung). His main students were Geshe Sharawa Yönten Drak and Geshe Langri Thangpa, who were known as the 'Sun and Moon of Ü'.
Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe writes:
Dromtönpa gave the teachings to suitable disciples, including his foremost spiritual heirs known as the ‘three precious brothers’. In particular, he transmitted the teaching to the great Potowa Rinchen Salwa, that victory banner of the teachings who was renowned as an emanation of the great elder Angiraja, and who worked exclusively for the sake of the Dharma, in both study and practice, and lived together with more than 2,000 monks. Not even for a single instant did this great master ever indulge in the eight worldly concerns in either thought or deed, and besides the immediate need to deal with comings and goings as they arose, he did not entertain any grand projects or speculations about the future.Potowa had eight great spiritual heirs, but it was to the pair renowned as the sun and moon of Ü—Sharawa Yönten Drak, who possessed the vast vision of Dharma, and the great Langthangpa Dorje Senge, who had mastery over bodhichitta—that he transmitted these teachings in secret, having first extracted the main points and condensed them into pith instructions.