Shakya Chokden

Shakya Chokden (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན་, Wyl. shAkya mchog ldan) (1428-1507). A lama in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He studied with Rongtön Sheja Kunrig and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo.

After experiences from a longer Hevajra retreat he wrote commentaries on scriptures that set forth a entitylessness position (Skt. niḥsvabhāvavāda). Many consider this synonymous to the Madhyamika system.

Further reading

• Komarovski, Yaroslav. Echoes of empty luminosity: Reevaluation and unique interpretation of Yogacara and Nihsvabhavavada Madhyamaka by the fifteenth century Tibetan thinker Sakya mchog ldan, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia (2007).
• Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity: The Golden Pandita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogacara and Madhyamaka, SUNY 2011, ISBN 978-9381406236
• Shakya Chokden, Three Texts on Madhyamaka, trans. Komarovski Iaroslav, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2002, ISBN 978-8186470268

External links

• TBRC Profile
• Biography at Treasury of Lives
• Shakya Chokden, Rigpa Shedra Wiki