An important 10th century Kadam master that was one of the main Tibetan students of Atiśa and the uncle of the famed translator Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Lekpai Sherab founded the influential monastic university Sungpu Neutok in 1072.
Mentioned in
Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen
The Tibetan traditions generally divide the primary modes of exegesis on the Ratnagotravibhāga into two lines of transmission known as the analytic tradition (thos bsam gyi lugs) and the meditative tradition (sgom lugs). These two traditions originated with the Tibetan disciples of the Kashmiri master Sajjana—namely, Ngok Lotsāwa and Tsen Khawoche, respectively. Therefore, these two are also commonly referred to as the Ngok tradition (rngog lugs), representing the scholarly or analytic approach, and the Tsen tradition (btsan lugs), representing the more practice-oriented meditative approach. Alternatively, Jamgön Kongtrul, in his encyclopedic work commonly known as the Treasury of Knowledge, refers to Ngok's tradition as "the oral transmission of exposition" (bshad pa'i bka' babs) and Tsen’s tradition as "the oral transmission of practice" (sgrub pa'i bka' babs). Though it is likely the diverging motivations of these two figures in requesting these teachings from their mutual teacher that would set these traditions on their respective trajectories.
Read more here.
Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, February 28, 2020. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_the_Traditions_of_Ngok_and_Tsen.
Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, February 28, 2020. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_the_Traditions_of_Ngok_and_Tsen.;Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen;Ngok Tradition;Tsen Tradition;Rngog blo ldan shes rab;Btsan kha bo che;Morten Ostensen
Other names
- རྔོག་ལོ་ཆུང་ · other names (Tibetan)
- རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- rngog lo chung · other names (Wylie)
- rngog lo tsA ba legs pa'i shes rab · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Uncle of rngog blo ldan shes rab · familial relation
- Kadam · religious affiliation
- gsang phu ne'u thog · primary professional affiliation
- Atīśa · teacher
- rin chen bzang po · teacher
- rngog blo ldan shes rab · student
