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Wylie bu ston rin chen grub
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English Definition The great scholar Buton (1290-1364). Born in central Tibet, he became famous for his scholarship of all sciences of learning. He compiled all the treatises translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan in a systematic order of index, and has also left more than two dozen volumes of collected wntings. Je Tsong Khapa also became his disciple and received many tantric teachings from him. His lineage is known as the Buton lineage (bu-lugs).
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