Rngog blo ldan shes rab

རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་
Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab (1059 - 1109) Born in: yar 'brog (lho ka) <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Female Earth Pig, 1^st sexagenary cycle. <br>

 

Ngok Lotsāwa was nephew of Ngok Lekpai Sherab, the founder of Sangpu Neutok, and not only carried on the teaching activities of his uncle but raised the fame and prestige of Sangpu to new heights. He was important not only to his own Kadam lineage, but to the development of Tibetan education in general. Ngok Lotsāwa, working with the Kashmiri paṇḍita Sajjana, produced the sole-surviving translation of the Ratnagotravibhāga, the central text of buddha-nature theory in Tibet. His commentary on the text is said to have initiated the "analytical" exegetical tradition.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	rngog blo ldan shes rab	རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ
Other Names	rngog lo tsA ba lo chen blo ldan shes rab blo ldan shes rab Ngok Lotsāwa Ngok Loden Sherab Lochen Loden Sherab Loden Sherab	རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ ལོ་ཆེན་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Kadam
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Rin chen bzang po Sajjana Parahitabhadra
Students	shes rab 'bar gro lung pa blo gros 'byung gnas Zhang tshe spong chos kyi bla ma rin chen nam mkha' rdo rje rin chen grags

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2551
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ngok-Loden-Sherab/4261
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