Gyarong Tendzin Drakpa
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རྒྱལ་རོང་བསྟན་འཛིན་གྲགས་པ།
rgyal rong bstan ’dzin grags pa
Short Biography
Four main disciples of Paltrul Rinpoche are complimented as being superior to Paltrul himself, an arrangement resembling the well known list of Vasubandhu’s four disciples who were more learned than himself.
(#2): The one who was superior to Paltrul himself in pramāṇa [was] the supreme scholar Tendzin Drakpa. According to Benchen Tenga Rinpoche (interview, Bremen 1999), this person is rGyal-rong bsTan-’dzin-grags-pa (TBRC-P5232). He was a controversial figure, and Nyushul Khenpo abstained from writing his biography.
- rdzogs chen chos ’byung, vol. 2, p. 323: de la dag snang ’dzin min ci rigs zhig snang bas re zhig bzhag go|. “Since I do not know whether it is appropriate to hold a pure view with regard to him, I leave it for the time being.”
- Cf. Marvelous Garland, p. 465: “I have refrained from doing so, since it appears that there are some who, for whatever reason, do not hold this master in high regard.”