Yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal
ཡང་དགོན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དཔལ་
Gyalwa Yang Gönpa Gyaltsen Pal (1213 - 1258) Born in: Lato (la stod) region of Tsang (gtsang) <br>
Gyalwa Yang Gönpa Gyaltsen Pal (1213 - 1258) Born in: Lato (la stod) region of Tsang (gtsang) <br>
Yanggonpa Gyeltsen Pel (yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal), also known as Lhadongpa Gyeltsen Pel (lha gdong pa rgyal mtshan dpal) was born in the Lato (la stod) region of Tsang (gtsang), in 1213. Yanggonpa, the informal name he adopted, came from a hermitage he refers to in his Inner Autobiography as Yanggon (yang dgon), where he did his first Vajravārāhī retreat. The village of his birth was Chuja (chu bya), a lay settlement associated with the small monastic complex of Lhadong Monastery (lha gdong dgon pa), in the principality of Gungtang (gung thang), not far form the Tibet-Nepal border. This small monastic complex of Lhadong was the place of Yanggonpa's early religious education, and he did not stray far from the area of Gungtang during his lifetime.
He was born into the Tong (stong) clan, as the youngest boy in a Nyingma family. He had two older brothers and one older sister. He was given the name Dungsob Pelbar (gdung sob dpal 'bar) by his father, a lay lama associated with Lhadong, who passed away before his birth. He began his religious training at about age five and entered Lhadong monastery at age nine. Both his father's brother, Drubtob Darma (grub thob dar ma) and his mother, Chotongma (chos mthong ma), who was a respected Buddhist practitioner, transmitted teachings to him as a boy. Read more on Treasury of lives
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| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Yanggonpa-Gyeltsen-Pel/7775 |
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