ཀཿ་ཐོག་རིག་འཛིན་ཚེ་དབང་ནོར་བུ་ Khatok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu (1698 - 1755) Born in: sa ngan bso ba <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Earth Tiger, 12<sup>th</sup> sexagenary cycle. <br>
Tsewang Norbu later received the entire Jonangpa tradition's teachings from Drubchen Kunzang Wangpo (grub chen kun bzang dbang po, seventeenth century), and he is credited with bringing about a renaissance of the teachings, particularly of the Jonang zhentong, or “other emptiness” view (gzhan stong). Tsewang Norbu had first attempted to meet with Kunzang Wangpo in 1726, while en route to Nepal, but was unable to do so. When he returned to Tibet the following year, the two met, and Tsewang Norbu received the extensive transmission at the hermitage Genden Khacho (dga' ldan mkha' chos) in Tsang, which was named Rulak Drepung (ru lag 'bras spung) prior to its forced conversion to Geluk. Tsewang Norbu transmitted the Jonang teachings to many Kagyu and Nyingma lamas, most importantly to the Eighth Tai Situ, Chokyi Gyeltsen (ta'i si tu 08 chos kyi 'byung gnas, c.1699-1774), with whom he spent time at the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu in 1748. ... read more at
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Main Wylie Name
kaH thog rig 'dzin tshe dbang nor bu
ཀཧ་ཐོག་རིག་འཛིན་ཚེ་དབང་ནོར་བུ
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{{#arraymap: pad+ma tshe dbang nor bu rdo rje dpal 'bar; chos dbyings rang grol; dpa' bo don grub rdo rje;
