Ngog Loden Sherab

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Ngog Loden Sherab ( . Tib rngog blo ldan shes rab ) or Ngog Lotsawa Loden Sherab . (T. རྔོག་ ལོ་ ཙཱ་ བ་ བློ་ ལྡན་ ཤེས་ རབ; Wylie: rngog lo ts'a ba blo ldan shes rab * 1059 ; † 1109 ) was an important figure in the introduction of Buddhism from India to Tibet; he had previously lived in Nepal and Kashmir for seventeen years . He is one of the most famous translators in Tibetan history and is known as one of the "Ten Pillars of Tibetan Buddhism" ( ka chen bcu ). It is also known under the name Matiprajna (Sanskrit). The monastery Sangphu Ne'uthog ( gsang phu ne'u thog ) founded by Ngog Legpe Sherab in 1073 was his place of work.

Translations

Tibetan Tanjur

Two versions of the Ratnagotravibhāga were translated by Loden Sherab in Srinagar in Kashmir under the supervision of the Kashmiri pundits Ratnavajra and Sajjana towards the end of the 11th century:

  • Theg-pa-chen-po rgyud-bla maḥi bstan-bcos (Mahāyāna-uttaratantra-śāstra), Tohaku Catalog No. 4024
  • Theg-pa-chen-po rgyud-bla-maḥi bstan-bcos rnam-par-bsad-pa (Mahāyāna-uttaratantra-śāstra-vyākhyā), Tohaku Catalog No. 4025.

See also

literature

  • Ralf Kramer: The Great Tibetan Translator. Life and Works of rNgog Blo ldan shes rab (1059-1109) Munich: Indus Verlag 2007 ( PDF full version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chinese E Luodan Xirao 俄 · 洛丹喜 饶 or E Luodeng Xirao 俄 · 洛登喜 饶 u. a.
  2. ↑ Buddhism: Ka Chen Bsu - The Ten Pillars of Tibetan Buddhism ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Kagyu Office of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa) - found September 19, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kagyuoffice.org
  3. ↑ a b c Takasaki, Jikido (1966). A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra) Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism (Rome Oriental Series 33). Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, p.6
  4. ↑ cf. Gyurme Dorje: Tibet handbook: with Bhutan
Ngog Loden Sherab (alternative names of the lemma)
Ngok Lotsawa Loden Sherab, 俄 · 洛丹喜 饶, 俄 · 洛登喜 饶; E Yishi Luodan Xierao 俄 译 师 罗丹 协 饶; 俄 · 罗丹喜 饶; E Luodan Xirao 俄 • 洛丹西 饶
personal data
SURNAME Ngog Loden Sherab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan Buddhist and eminent translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1059
DATE OF DEATH 1109