Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa

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ཞང་སྟོན་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་
Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa(1292 - 1370)
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Zhangton Gyawo, who was one of Dolpopa’s fourteen major disciples, studied widely in different traditions as a young man. Then he spent almost thirty years with Dolpopa, receiving all the great master’s teachings. For the last fifteen years of his life Zhangton taught the massive Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra every year.

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Library Items

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Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa: Commentary on the Ultimate Continuum Clarifying the Last Wheel of Teachings
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Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa: Elucidating the Essence: A Commentary on the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
Perhaps the first and only Tibetan commentary on the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, Zhangtön Sonam Drakpa interprets the sūtra according to theory of Other-emptiness and also carries out refutation of those who identity Buddha-Nature with store-consciousness and consider Buddha-Nature sūtras as provisional teachings.

On the topic of this person

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Klaus-Dieter Mathes at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
Klaus-Dieter Mathes discusses Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen’s position on Buddha-nature. He describes how his student Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa defends his teacher's position by arguing that one faces eight undesired consequences if one does not strictly differentiate buddha-nature from the ground consciousness.
Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. “Zhang ston Bsod nams grags pa’s Defense of Dol po pa’s Clear-Cut Distinction between Buddha Nature and the Ground Consciousness.” Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 40:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ALrY63cho.

Other names

  • ཞང་སྟོན་རྒྱ་བོ་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཞང་སྟོན་བྱང་སེམས་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • zhang ston rgya bo bsod nams grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • zhang ston byang sems bsod nams grags pa · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

  • Jonang · religious affiliation
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