Sga rab 'byams pa kun dga' ye shes

སྒ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe (1397 - 1470) Born in: Gatö Dzonyak <br>

A statue of Ga Rabjampa kept at Tharlam Monastery in Nepal

 

Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe was born in Kham and educated in U-Tsang under some of the most famous Sakya teachers of his day. After receiving instruction from the likes of Rongton Shākya Gyeltsen Kunrik and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, he was awarded the degree of Rabjampa, the highest educational rank at the time. Returning to Kham he spent years in retreat and then taught extensively. He founded Tarlam Monastery in 1436.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	sga rab 'byams pa kun dga' ye shes	སྒ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས
Other Names	thar lam rab 'byams pa kun dga' ye shes	ཐར་ལམ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Sakya
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Rong ston shes bya kun rig Ngor mkhan chen, 1st

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1028
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ga-Rabjampa-Kunga-Yeshe/1831
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