ShAkya mchog ldan

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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<sup>th</sup> 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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    Links
    BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P396
    Treasury of Lives https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/%C5%9A%C4%81kya-Chokden/6351
    Himalayan Art Resources