Ngo rje ras pa

ངོ་རྗེ་རས་པ་

Ngoje Repa(1090 - 1166)

Ngoje Repa Zhedang Dorje (ngo rje ras pa zhe sdang rdo rje) was born in the early part of the twelfth century in the Ngor region (ngor) of Tsang (gtsang). His father, a member of the Ngoje (ngo rje) family, was named Dorje Tob (rdo rje stobs), and his mother was named Dortso (rdor mtsho).

Among his early teachers were the Kashmiri Paṇḍita Śākyaśrībhadra (kha che pan chen shAkya shrI b+ha dra, 1127-1225). He studied philosophy in the Sakya tradition and was known as an excellent debater and expounder of the Buddhist teachings.

According to tradition, when Ngoje Repa first heard of Jikten Gonpo Rinchen Pel ('jig rten mgon po rin chen dpal, 1143-1217) the founder of Drigung Til Monastery ('bri gung mthil), he was overcome by jealousy. He drew a picture on a wall of Jikten Gonpo turning a stone mill with the heads of his disciples in it, a depiction meant to suggest that Jikten Gonpo was spinning the heads of his disciples with false teachings.

Confident of his debating skills, he went to Drigung Til to challenge Jikten Gonpo. He was brought into the master's presence by Pelchen Ngepuwa (dpal chen ngad phu ba). Despite his intentions, legend has it that as soon Ngoje Repa saw Jikten Gonpo he felt he was seeing the Buddha himself.
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Theg chen bstan pa'i snying po'i gzhung

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Treatise on the Mahāyāna according to the early Drikung Kagyu author Ngoje Repa Zhedang Dorje (ngo rje ras pa zhe sdang rdo rje) (1090–1166).

Ngoje Repa;ངོ་རྗེ་རས་པ་;Ngo rje ras pa;zhe sdang rdo rje;bal bu gongs pa;ཞེ་སྡང་རྡོ་རྗེ་;བལ་བུ་གོངས་པ་;theg chen bstan pa'i snying po'i gzhung;ཐེག་ཆེན་བསྟན་པའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཞུང་།

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Katrin Querl at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

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Katrin Querl presents an overview of Jikten Gonpo's position on Buddha-nature as outlined in the textual corpus known as the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig) and in two of this work's earliest commentaries.

Querl, Katrin. "Preliminary Notes on the Notion of Buddha Nature in the Single Intention." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 43:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3GJz3-5DY.

Querl, Katrin. "Preliminary Notes on the Notion of Buddha Nature in the Single Intention." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 43:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3GJz3-5DY.;Katrin Querl at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po;Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa;Mahamudra;Drikung Kagyu;Kagyu;Tsen Tradition;gotra;guṇa;'bri gung spyan snga shes rab 'byung gnas;Ngo rje ras pa;Rdo rje shes rab;Drikung Chungtsang, 1st;Rin chen byang chub;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Ordinary Mind;ekayāna;Katrin Querl; Preliminary Notes on the Notion of Buddha Nature in the Single Intention

Other names

• ཞེ་སྡང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• བལ་བུ་གོངས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• zhe sdang rdo rje · other names (Wylie)
• bal bu gongs pa · other names (Wylie)
• zhe sdang rdo rje · other names
• bal bu gongs pa · other names

Affiliations & relations

• 'bri gung bka' brgyud · religious affiliation
• 'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po · teacher
• Śākyaśrībhadra · teacher
• lcags ri ba · teacher