Rongsom Chökyi Sangpo

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : རོང་ ཟོམ་ ཆོས་ ཀྱི་ བཟང་ པོ
Wylie transliteration : rong zom chos kyi bzang po
Chinese name
Simplified : 绒松巴 • 却吉桑波
Pinyin : Rongsongba Queji Sangbo

Rongsom Chökyi Sangpo ( Tib . : rong zom chos kyi bzang po ; born 1012 ; died 1088 ) or in short: Rongsompa , a " Nyingmapa Pandita ", was an important Dzogchen scholar of the Nyingma school in the 11th century. He was the founder of his own Dzogchen school, the Rong School ( rong lugs )

Works

སྣང་བ་ ལྷར་ བསྒྲུབ ( snang ba lhar bsgrub ) - English translation by Köppl (2008)

Translations

Heidi I. Köppl: Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chözang on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity . Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York 2008, ISBN 1-55939-288-6 .

literature

Dorji Wangchuk : The "Great Perfection" (rDzogs-chen) as it is presented in Rong-zom-pa's work (PDF; 1.1 MB) - buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de
Dorji Wangchuk: A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (PDF; 178 kB) - vajrayana.faithweb.com (University of Hamburg)
Samten Gyaltsen Karmay: The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen) . 1989
Orna Almogi. Rong-zom-pa's Discourses on Buddhology: A Study of Various Conceptions of Buddhahood in Indian Sources with Special Reference to the Controversy Surrounding the Existence of Gnosis (ye shes: jñāna) as Presented by the Eleventh-Century Tibetan Scholar Rong-zom Chos- kyi-bzang-po. Studia Philologica Buddhica: Monograph Series XXIV.Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2009 ( book presentation )

reference books

Dan Martin, Yael Bentor (eds.): Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works (London, Serindia 1997), ISBN 0-906026-43-1 (No. 5, 6) - ( Addenda et Corrigenda )

Web links

References and comments

↑ . Tib chen rong rdzogs lugs ; Chinese Dayuanman Rongpai 大圆满绒派. - According to David Germano " Architecture and Absence in the Secret Tantric History of rDzogs Chen " (p. 236, note 84), this school is described by Kathogpa Namkha Dorje ( Ka thog pa nam mkha 'rdo rje ) in the gDams ngag mdzod (vol. 1, 270-95) and in rNying ma bka 'ma rgyas pa (vol. 17).
↑ or Rong - Long tradition ( rong klong lugs ; English System of Rong and Long ) - cf. Nathaniel DeWitt Garson: Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra (PDF; 5.0 MB) . Diss. 2004 (University of Virginia), p. 241

Rongsom Chökyi Sangpo (alternative names of the lemma)
Rongsompa Chökyi Sangpo; rong zom pa chos kyi bzang po; Rong Qusang 绒 • 曲桑; rong chos bzang; Rong Chösang; Rong Qujie Sangbo 绒 • 曲结桑波; Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo; Rong Queji Sangbo 绒・却吉桑波; Rongzom Chokyi Sangpo; རོང་ ཟོམ་ ཆོས་ ཀྱི་ བཟང་ པོ; rong zom chos kyi bzang po; Rongsongba Queji Sangbo 绒松巴 • 却吉桑波; Rongzom Mahapandita; Rongzompa; Rongsom Chokyi Sangpo; Rongdzom Chokyi Zangpo; Rong Chokyi Sangpo

personal data
SURNAME	Rongsom Chökyi Sangpo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	rong zom chos kyi bzang po; Rongsompa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tibetan author, Dzogchen
DATE OF BIRTH	1012
DATE OF DEATH	1088

[1] . Tib chen rong rdzogs lugs ; Chinese Dayuanman Rongpai 大圆满绒派. - According to David Germano " Architecture and Absence in the Secret Tantric History of rDzogs Chen " (p. 236, note 84), this school is described by Kathogpa Namkha Dorje ( Ka thog pa nam mkha 'rdo rje ) in the gDams ngag mdzod (vol. 1, 270-95) and in rNying ma bka 'ma rgyas pa (vol. 17).

[2] r Rong - Long tradition ( rong klong lugs ; English System of Rong and Long ) - cf. Nathaniel DeWitt Garson: Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra (PDF; 5.0 MB) . Diss. 2004 (University of Virginia), p. 241