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Sangya Rinchen, who bestowed the vows of novice monk on him. In 1614, at the age of twenty-six, he took the Gelong vows (full ordination) from the Fourth

four, under the holy Lama Kunga Chogdrub. From this master he received the vows of a layperson. Until he was eight years old, he learned reading and writing

Phuntsok's mother dies. 1955. At twenty two, he became a fully ordained monk maintaining over 250 vows. 1957. At twenty four, Khenpo returned to his home

the other traditional fields of knowledge. His collected writings total twenty-six volumes while His pure visions fill another two. During His youth, Tibet

anarchy and disruption [RY] Langdro Lotsawa (glang 'gro lo tsa ba). One of the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. [RY] Langri Tangwa (glang ri thang ba)

him the name Thupten Gyatso. In 1860, at the age of five he took the novice vows of monkhood from the Gaden Throne Holder Lobsang Khenrab and he was enthroned

counted as twenty. [RY] defilement; definition of the word [LW1] [RY] Definite Essence Tantra (nges pa snying po'i rgyud). One of The Twenty-five Tantras

maintained by practitioners of the tantras complement the vinaya and bodhisattva vows taken by those who uphold the monastic and sūtra traditions of the Greater

Nagarjuna returned to see his parents again. He then took the full monastic vows. Once, a terrible famine broke out in Magadha and continued for twelve years

Shakyamuni, Rinpoche gave a profound and instructive discourse on the three vows before an assembly of a hundred monks and lay people and by this exhibited

attained the body of nondual wisdom. Namkhai Nyingpo is also counted among the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche. Receiving the transmission of Vishuddha

Gyatso's recommendation, Munsel joined Katok Monastery and soon received his vows of full ordination (bhikṣu). He subsequently enrolled in Katok's monastic

women and men. A group of some twenty women, in training as yoginis, occupied one hermitage. Eight women, taking the vows of nuns, came together and quickly

in Logic, Abhidharma, Prajna Paramita and The Clarification of the Three Vows from many great scholars like the abbots Dosep Thupten, Tritso Rinchen and

Three sets of precepts (sdom gsum). See three vows. [RY] three sets of vows (sdom pa gsum). The Hinayana vows of individual liberation, the Mahayana trainings

liberation. The vows of individual liberation are the eight categories of vows taught in the Vinaya, from the simple one day vow upto the complete vows of a fully

study, reflection and meditation, and master of all teachings. After taking vows from the pandita Khache Shakya Shribhadra, until the end of his life, he

Tashi kept his monastic discipline and vows as carefully as one protects their own eyes. In his early twenties, he became a formal student of Tsara Dharmakirti

having bound them to the genyen or upasaka vows renamed them as mchog rag tsal Protector of Mt. Marpori, and the Twenty One Genyen

the monastic vow of celibacy. So as not to disrupt any auspicious connections and thereby risk short- ening his life span, he took the 33 vows of a novice