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Gyalse Tokme Zangpo (T. rgyal sras thogs med bzang po རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་) (1295-1369), a.k.a. Tokme Zangpo, was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335.[1]
- Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage.[1]
He also composed a commentary on the Bodhisattvacāryāvatāra, entitled Ocean of Good Saying (legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho).[2]
He is also known as Ngulchu Thokmé (T. དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་),[3] in reference to Ngulchu Monastery where he lived for many years.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Thogs med bzang po, Tsadra Commons
- ↑
Gyelse Tokme Zangpo, Treasury of Lives
- ↑ Ringu Tulku. Daring Steps Towards Fearlessness (p. 57). Shambhala.
Further reading
Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project- Gyalse Tokme Zangpo , Tsadra Commons
- Gyelse Tokme Zangpo, Treasury of Lives
Gyalsé Tokmé Zangpo, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
How to Transform Sickness and Other Circumstances, Lotsawa House
