Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen

Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen (T. bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་) aka Sakyapa Sonam Gyaltsen (1312-1375) was a senior lama within the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. Among his teachers were Butön Rinchen Drup, from whom he received the empowerment of Kalachakra, and Drakpukpa Sönam Pal. He was a teacher of both Je Tsongkhapa and Longchenpa.

Sönam Gyaltsen is particularly notable for his famous historical work the Clear Mirror on Royal Genealogy, his commentary on the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (composed in 1338), his work on lamdre practice, as well as his work with Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen on the zhentong theory of the two truths doctrine.

Further reading

• Sakyapa Sonam Gyaltsen, The Clear Mirror: A Traditional Account of Tibet's Golden Age, translated by McComas Taylor and Lama Choedak Yuthok, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1996
• Sørensen, P.K., Tibetan Buddhist Historiography: The Mirror Illuminating the Royal Genealogies. An Annotated Translation of the XIVth Century Chronicle rGyal-rabs gsal-ba'i me-long, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994

External links

• Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen, Treasury of Lives

• Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen, Wikipedia
• Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• TBRC Profile