Jo nang chos rje yon tan rgya mtsho
ཇོ་ནང་ཆོས་རྗེ་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Jonang Chöje Yönten Gyatso (1260 - 1327) Born in: mdog (gtsang) <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Iron Monkey, 4<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
Jonang Chöje Yönten Gyatso (1260 - 1327) Born in: mdog (gtsang) <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Iron Monkey, 4<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
Yonten Gyatso (yon tan rgya mtsho) was born in 1260 in a family that practiced the Nyingma tradition in the Dok (mdog) region of Tsang. He first studied at Dar Monastery (mdar dgon), where he became an expert in Abhidharma and epistemology.
He visited various other places and received teachings from many masters of tantra. At Sakya Monastery (sa skya dgon) he became a disciple and the main assistant teacher for the Sakya master Sharpa Jamyang Chenpo Rinchen Gyeltsen (shar pa 'jam dbyangs chen po rin chen rgyal mtshan, d.u.), who served as the Tenth Sakya Tridzin (sa skya khri 'dzin) for eighteen years beginning in 1287. From Jamyang Chenpo he received many teachings such as the Tantra Trilogy of Hevajra and the related oral instructions, and the Mahāyāna treatises of the Pramāṇavārttika, Abhisamayālaṃkāra, and Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.
From Jamyang Chenpo's elder brother, the Kālacakra expert Dukorwa Yeshe Rinchen (dus 'khor ba ye shes rin chen, 1248-1294), Yonten Gyatso received teachings such as the Kālacakra Tantra, the Hevajra Tantra, and the Abhisamayālaṃkāra. He was also required to go as Yeshe Rinchen's attendent to the imperial court of Kubilai Khan in China.
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| BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P150 |
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| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Khetsun-Yonten-Gyatso/2790 |
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