Rngog legs pa'i shes rab

རྔོག་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་
Ngok Lekpai Sherab (b. 10th Century - )

Ngok Lekpai Sherab was a founding figure of the Kadam tradition and Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism. One of the "three heart sons" of Atiśa, along with Khuton and Dromton, his distinctive contribution was to provide the Kadam tradition with rigorous intellectual discipline combined with tantric practice. He was the founder, with his nephew Ngok Loden Sherab, of Sangpu Neutog Monastery. He was a master of pramāṇa and the guardian of Atiśa’s secret oral teachings, especially the Sixteen Drops. Many Tibetan historians and contemporary western publications have erroneously conflated him with Lochung Lekpai Sherab
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	rngog legs pa'i shes rab	རྔོག་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ
Other Names	rngog lo chung rngog lo tsA ba legs pa'i shes rab	རྔོག་ལོ་ཆུང་ རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Kadam
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Atīśa rin chen bzang po
Students	rngog blo ldan shes rab

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3389
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ngok-Lots%C4%81wa-Lekpai-Sherab/P3389
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