Ngawang Lodro Drakpa was a vajra master at Tsangwa Monastery in the Dzamtang region of Amdo. Often referred to as “Mati Rinpoche,” he was one of the leading intellectual figures and most prolific Jonangpa authors of the twentieth century. He is regarded by the living Jonang tradition as a miraculous manifestation of the Tibetan masters Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen, Kunga Drolchok, and Tāranātha, among others.
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Sheehy, M.: The Gzhan stong Chen mo
A dissertation on the Jonang position of other-emptiness (gzhan stong) as represented by work of the modern scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros grags pa (1920-75).
Sheehy, Michael. "The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75)." PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007.
Sheehy, Michael. "The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75)." PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007.;The Gzhan stong Chen mo;Jonang;gzhan stong;Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;gzhi;Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;Michael Sheehy;The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75);Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa
Ngawang Lodrö Drakpa: Fearless Lion's Roar: The Tradition of Jonang Which Ascertains the Profound Meaning of the Supreme Vehicle of Cause and Result
Along with Dol po pa's Ri chos Nges don Rgya mtsho and Tāranātha’s Dbu ma Theg mchog Rab dbyed Brgyad, the Gzhan stong Chen mo comprises the third major textbook studied within the Gzhan stong Madhyamaka curriculum at major Jonang monastic universities, including 'Dzam thang Dgon pa, Bswe Dgon pa and Lcam mda' Dgon pa. For pedagogical reasons, and because of the structure of Mkhan po Blo grags' work, monks generally begin by studying sūtra gzhan stong separately from tantric gzhan stong in preparation for examining Dol po pa's synthetic masterpiece interweaving sūtra and tantra. In a coherent structure identical to the Ri chos, the Gzhan stong Chen mo presents gzhan stong philosophical thinking systematically in accord with the outline of ground (gzhi), path (lam) and fruition ('bras bu), treating sūtra gzhan stong within the main body of the text and tantric gzhan stong as an appendix.
Michael Sheehy, 2007.
Gzhan stong chen mo;gzhan stong;gzhi;Jonang;Ngawang Lodrö Drakpa;ངག་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;'dzam thang mkhan po blo gros grags pa;mkhan po blo grags;blo gros grags pa;འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲགས་;བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;Dzamthang Khenpo Lodrö Drakpa;Khenpo Lodrak;rgyu dang 'bras bu'i theg pa mchog gi gnas lugs zab mo'i don rnam par nges pa rje jo nang pa chen po'i ring lugs 'jigs med gdong lnga'i nga ro;རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུའི་ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་གནས་ལུགས་ཟབ་མོའི་དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་རྗེ་ཇོ་ནང་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རིང་ལུགས་འཇིགས་མེད་གདོང་ལྔའི་ང་རོ།;རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུའི་ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་གནས་ལུགས་ཟབ་མོའི་དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་རྗེ་ཇོ་ནང་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རིང་ལུགས་འཇིགས་མེད་གདོང་ལྔའི་ང་རོ།
Ngawang Lodrö Drakpa: An Excellent Ornament of a Brilliant Mind: A Concise Presentation of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Tenets
A condensed presentation of the tenets of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist philosophical systems by a modern Jonang scholar. This treatise presents the main advocates, the main literary sources, the view or ground reality, the practice on the path and resultant states. The highest Buddhist tenet system, the Mādhyamika school, is divided into the rangtong or the self-emptiness sub-school and the zhentong or the other-emptiness sub-school.
Phyi nang grub mtha'i rnam bzhag gi bsdus don blo gsal yid kyi rgyan bzang;Jonang;Ngawang Lodrö Drakpa;ངག་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;'dzam thang mkhan po blo gros grags pa;mkhan po blo grags;blo gros grags pa;འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲགས་;བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་;Dzamthang Khenpo Lodrö Drakpa;Khenpo Lodrak;phyi nang grub mtha'i rnam bzhag gi bsdus don blo gsal yid kyi rgyan bzang;ཕྱི་ནང་གྲུབ་མཐའི་རྣམ་བཞག་གི་བསྡུས་དོན་བློ་གསལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་བཟང་།;ཕྱི་ནང་གྲུབ་མཐའི་རྣམ་བཞག་གི་བསྡུས་དོན་བློ་གསལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་བཟང་།
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Sheehy, M.: The Gzhan stong Chen mo
A dissertation on the Jonang position of other-emptiness (gzhan stong) as represented by work of the modern scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros grags pa (1920-75).
Sheehy, Michael. "The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75)." PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007.
Sheehy, Michael. "The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75)." PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies, 2007.;The Gzhan stong Chen mo;Jonang;gzhan stong;Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;gzhi;Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa;Michael Sheehy;The Gzhan stong Chen mo: A Study of Emptiness according to the Modern Tibetan Buddhist Jo nang Scholar 'Dzam thang Mkhan po Ngag dbang Blo gros Grags pa (1920-75);Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa
Other names
- འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲགས་ · other names (Tibetan)
- བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- 'dzam thang mkhan po blo gros grags pa · other names (Wylie)
- mkhan po blo grags · other names (Wylie)
- blo gros grags pa · other names (Wylie)
- Dzamthang Khenpo Lodrö Drakpa · other names
- Khenpo Lodrak · other names
Affiliations & relations
- Jonang · religious affiliation
- tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho · teacher
- kun dga' snyan grags rgya mtsho · teacher
- ngag dbang yon tan bzang po · student
- kun dga' shes rab · student