ShAkya mchog ldan

ཤཱཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན་
Śākya Chokden (1428 - 1507) Born in: gsang mda' bang rim <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Earth Monkey, 7^th sexagenary cycle. <br>

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Śākya Chokden was one of the most important thinkers of the Sakya tradition. His teachers were Rongtön Sheja Kunrik, Dönyo Pelwa and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. A thinker who accepted both the rangtong and zhentong, or "self-empty" and "other empty" views of Madhyamaka, Śākya Chokden's seat was at Serdokchen Monastery near Shigatse in Tsang. Influential and controversial in his own day, his writings fell out of favor over time and many were banned in the seventeenth century.
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Main Wylie Name	shAkya mchog ldan	ཤཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན
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Religious Affiliation	Sakya
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	rong ston shes bya kun rig don yod dpal ba Ngor mkhan chen, 1st spyang lung chos sdings gzhon nu blo gros

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P396
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/%C5%9A%C4%81kya-Chokden/6351
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