Gyaltsab Je () (1364 – 1432) or more elaborately, Gyaltsab Dharma Rinchen was born in the Tsang province of central
Tibet
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. He was a famous student of
Je Tsongkhapa
Tsongkhapa ('','' meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley", c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Budd ...
, and actually became the first
Ganden Tripa
The Ganden Tripa, also spelled Gaden Tripa ( "Holder of the Ganden Throne"), is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that controlled central Tibet from the mid-17th century until the 1950s. The 10 ...
(throne holder) of the
Gelug
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The Gelug (, also Geluk; "virtuous ...
tradition after Je Tsongkhapa's death. He also studied with Rendawa Zhonnu Lodro (red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros, 1349-1412).
Gyaltsab Je was a prolific writer; one of his most famous texts is a commentary of Shantideva's ''
A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
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''.
Lodrö Tenpa
Lodrö Tenpa ( bo, བློ་གྲོས་བརྟན་པ, (blo gros brtan pa)) (1402–1476) was a Tibetan spiritual leader. He was the seventh Ganden Tripa of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1473 to 1479.
Lodrö Tenpa was born ...
, the seventh
Ganden Tripa
The Ganden Tripa, also spelled Gaden Tripa ( "Holder of the Ganden Throne"), is the title of the spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the school that controlled central Tibet from the mid-17th century until the 1950s. The 10 ...
, was his student.
References
External links
Tradition: Gelug School Introduction himalayanart.org. Accessed 7 December 2022.
1364 births
1432 deaths
Ganden Tripas
Lamas
Tibetan Buddhists from Tibet
14th-century Tibetan people
15th-century Tibetan people
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