Rongton Sheja Kunrik
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Rongtön Sheja Kunrig (T. rong ston shes bya kun rig རོང་སྟོན་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་རིག་) (1367-1449), aka Shakya Gyaltsen (T. shAkya rgyal mtshan ཤཱཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་). An important scholar of the Sakya school, who, like his principal teacher Yaktön Sangye Pal, is especially renowned for his mastery of the prajnaparamita teachings and the text of the Abhisamayalankara.[1]
He taught at the great Sangphu Neuthog, and founded his own monastery of Nalendra in 1436. His most famous disciples were Shakya Chokden and Gorampa Sönam Senge.[1]
Writings
Christian Bernert states:
- Jackson gives us two lists of Rongtön’s writings: one by Shakya Chokden included in his biography of the master, and another more recent one, compiled by Khenpo Appey Yonten Sangpo and others. Depending on the source, Rongtön is said to have authored either forty-one or forty-three major subcommentaries and nineteen minor treatises, as well as many smaller works, such as praises, sādhanas, personal communications, and so forth. All in all, Rongtön authored about three hundred works, which are said to have filled either thirteen or twenty volumes.
- Among his most important compositions are his commentaries on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra and those on the treatises attributed to Maitreya... Unfortunately, only about half of his oeuvre is available to us today, and of these, as Jackson notes, many are still difficult to access.[2]
His commentaries include:
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Rongtön Sheja Kunrig, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- ↑ Adorning Maitreya's Intent: Arriving at the View of Nonduality, translated by Christian Bernert (Snow Lion, 2017).
Further reading
Print publications:
- Cabezón, José Ignacio. 'Rong ston Shākya rgyal mtshan on Mādhyamika Thesislessness' in Tibetan Studies, vol. 1, Wien: Verlag der Osterrichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. 97-105.
- Jackson, David P. (ed.) Rong-ston on the Prajñāpāramitā Philosophy of the Abhisamayālaṃkara, (Biblia Tibetica 2), Nagata-Bunshodo (Kyoto 1988). pp. i-xxiv
- David P. Jackson, The Early Abbots of 'Phan-po Na-lendra: The Vicissitudes of a Great Tibetan Monastery in the 15th Century, Wien, 1989
- Rongton Sheja Kunrig, Adorning Maitreya's Intent: Arriving at the View of Nonduality, Christian Bernert (Translator), Snow Lion, 2017, ISBN 978-1611803662
Web publications:
Rong_ston_shes_bya_kun_rig, Tsadra Commons- Rongtön Sheja Kunrig, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Rongtön Sheja Kunrig Series on Lotsawa House, Lotsawa House
TBRC profile- Biography at Treasury of Lives
