People/Jo nang chos rje yon tan rgya mtsho

ཇོ་ནང་ཆོས་རྗེ་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Jonang Chöje Yönten Gyatso(1260 - 1327) 

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mdog (gtsang)

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Male Iron Monkey, 4^th sexagenary cycle.

Yonten Gyatso (yon tan rgya mtsho) was born in 1260 in a family that practiced the Nyingma tradition in the Dok (mdog) region of Tsang. He first studied at Dar Monastery (mdar dgon), where he became an expert in Abhidharma and epistemology.

He visited various other places and received teachings from many masters of tantra. At Sakya Monastery (sa skya dgon) he became a disciple and the main assistant teacher for the Sakya master Sharpa Jamyang Chenpo Rinchen Gyeltsen (shar pa 'jam dbyangs chen po rin chen rgyal mtshan, d.u.), who served as the Tenth Sakya Tridzin (sa skya khri 'dzin) for eighteen years beginning in 1287. From Jamyang Chenpo he received many teachings such as the Tantra Trilogy of Hevajra and the related oral instructions, and the Mahāyāna treatises of the Pramāṇavārttika, Abhisamayālaṃkāra, and Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.

From Jamyang Chenpo's elder brother, the Kālacakra expert Dukorwa Yeshe Rinchen (dus 'khor ba ye shes rin chen, 1248-1294), Yonten Gyatso received teachings such as the Kālacakra Tantra, the Hevajra Tantra, and the Abhisamayālaṃkāra. He was also required to go as Yeshe Rinchen's attendent to the imperial court of Kubilai Khan in China.
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Michael Sheehy explores the “images of emptiness” or expressions of emptiness in the Kālacakra Tantra. He discusses how these were interpreted by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) and his immediate disciples to be direct expressions of tathāgatagarbha.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.;Michael Sheehy at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Dol po pa;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Zhentong;Jonang;Vajrayana;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Yu mo mi bskyod rdo rje;Nya dbon kun dga' dpal;Phyogs las rnam rgyal;Tsong kha pa;Vimalaprabhā;Jo nang lo tsA ba blo gros dpal;Jonang Yon tan rgya mtsho;Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals

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Michael Sheehy at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

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Michael Sheehy explores the “images of emptiness” or expressions of emptiness in the Kālacakra Tantra. He discusses how these were interpreted by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) and his immediate disciples to be direct expressions of tathāgatagarbha.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.;Michael Sheehy at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Dol po pa;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Zhentong;Jonang;Vajrayana;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Yu mo mi bskyod rdo rje;Nya dbon kun dga' dpal;Phyogs las rnam rgyal;Tsong kha pa;Vimalaprabhā;Jo nang lo tsA ba blo gros dpal;Jonang Yon tan rgya mtsho;Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals

Other names

• མཁས་བཙུན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• མཁས་པ་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཇོ་ནང་གདན་རབས་༠༣་ · other names (Tibetan)
• mkhas btsun yon tan rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)
• mkhas pa yon tan rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)
• jo nang gdan rabs 03 · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Jonang · religious affiliation
• Third Throne Holder of Jonang Monastery · primary professional affiliation
• Kun spangs thugs rje brtson 'grus · teacher
• byang sems rgyal ba ye shes · teacher
• Dol po pa · student
• kun spangs chos grags dpal bzang · student