Gyalse Shenpen Taye
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Gyalse Shenpen Taye (T. rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha’ yas ‘od zer (1800–c.1855). A Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monk, who is considered one of the most important Tibetan scholars and monastic reformers of the 19th century. He is known as the founder of the modern shedra system of Tibetan monastic education.[1]
- A member of the Nyingma (rnying ma) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism—known primarily for their non-monastic, tantric cycles and lineages—Shenpen Tayé chose to take full monastic ordination and worked to encourage and support the uptake of Buddhist monasticism among other Nyingmapas. Above all, Shenpen Tayé was renowned among his contemporaries and remembered by later generations of Nyingmapas as one of the greatest textual scholars of his generation. He famously collected, edited, and published the first collection of the Nyingma kama (bka’ ma; “Transmitted Precepts”), which subsequently served as the basis for the successively more expansive kama collections published in recent decades. Shenpen Tayé was known not only for his scholarly acumen, but for giving lucid and precise teachings and explanations, many of which survive and are still in use today in the form of textbooks, scholastic commentaries, and works of personal advice.[1]
According to Tulku Thondup ‘…there has not been adequate acknowledgement of the great services he rendered to the heart and core of the Nyingma tradition’. Dudjom Rinpoche wrote: ‘His kindness and legacy to the teaching surpass the imagination.’[2]
Teachers
He teachers included many of the Sarma and Nyingma masters of the Rimé movement, especially the first Dodrupchen Rinpoche Changchup Dorjé (aka Jikmé Trinlé Özer) (1745-1821), Jikmé Gyalwé Nyugu (1765-1843), the Fourth Dzogchen Rinpoche Mingyur Namkhé Dorjé (1793–1870), and Sengtruk Pema Tashi.
Students
His students included Jikmé Gyalwé Nyugu and all three incarnations of Jikmé Lingpa—Patrul Rinpoche, Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo—as well as Shechen Öntrul Thutob Namgyal, Minling Trichen Sangye Kunga and the great Dzogchen Khenpo Pema Dorje.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hiebert, Christopher (2022), Authentically Buddhist, Distinctively Nyingma: Gyelse Shenpen Taye and the Formation of the Modern Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Virginia. https://doi.org/10.18130/5dp0-1t35
- ↑
Gyalsé Shenpen Tayé, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Further reading
- Gyalsé Shenpen Tayé, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Gyalse_Shenpen_Thaye, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
Gyelse Zhenpen Taye Wozer, Treasury of Lives
Gyalse Zhenpen Taye, Tsadra Commons
Gyalse Shenpen Thaye Series, Lotsawa House
TBRC Profile- Collected works (Tibetan language), archive.org
- Hiebert, Christopher (2022), Authentically Buddhist, Distinctively Nyingma: Gyelse Shenpen Taye and the Formation of the Modern Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Virginia. https://doi.org/10.18130/5dp0-1t35
