Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen

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Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration :
gtsang smyon he ru ka sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan
Chinese name
Simplified :
藏 宁赫 汝 嘎 • 桑结 坚赞;
桑吉 坚赞
Pinyin :
Zang Ning Heruga Sangjie Jianzan;
Sangji Jianzan

Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen ( Tib. Gtsang smyon he ru ka sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan ; * 1452 ; † 1507 ), the "holy fool of Tsang ", was a great master of the Drugpa Kagyu direction of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism . He is the author of two famous biographies, that of Marpa and Milarepa .

See also

literature

  • Smith, E. Gene: “The Life of Gtsang smyon Heruka”, in Among Tibetan Texts , Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001
  • John Ardussi & Lawrence Epstein: "The Saintly Madman in Tibet", in: Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface . James F. Fisher (ed.), Paris: Mouton & Co. Pp. 327–338, 1978 ( online (PDF; 14.2 MB) - case.edu).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chinese Zang Ning Heruga Sangjie Jianzan 藏 宁赫 汝 嘎 • 桑结 坚赞
  2. ↑ According to Stefan Larsson ( Crazy Yogins During the Early Renaissance Period - collab.itc.virginia.edu): Tsang Nyön Heruka (gTsang smyon Heruka; 1452–1507), Drug Nyön Künga Legpa ('Brug smyon Kun dga 'legs pa; 1455–1529), Ü Nyön Künga Sangpo (dBus smyon Kun dga' bzang po; 1458–1532) and Thangtong Gyelpo (Thang stong rgyal po; 1361–1485).
  3. ↑ cf. Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka: The life of Marpa the translator
  4. ↑ cf. Tsang Nyön Heruka: Lord of the Yogis: The Life of Jetsün Milarepa
Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen (alternative names of the lemma)
Tsangnyon Heruka; གཙང་ སྨྱོན་ ཧེ་ རུ་ ཀ་, gtsang smyon he ru ka; Zang Ning Heruga Sangjie Jianzan 藏 宁赫 汝 嘎 • 桑结 坚赞; Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen; gtsang smyon he ru ka sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan; gtsang smyon he ru ka rus pa'i rgyan can; Tsangnyong Heruka Rüpägyäncän; Tsang Nyon Heruka; gtsang smyon he ru ka; Sangjie Jianzan; 桑结 坚赞; sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan; Sanggye Gyeltshen; Sangji Jianzan 桑吉 坚赞; Gtsang smyon Heruka; གཙང་ སྨྱོན་ ཧེ་ རུ་ ཀ་ རུས་ པའི་ རྒྱན་ ཅན; Tsang Nyön Heruka; Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka; Zang Ning Heiruga 藏 宁 黑 如 嘎; Tsang Nyon Heruka; Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka; 桑杰 坚 参; 藏 宁 · 海 如 嘎
personal data
SURNAME Tsang Nyön Heruka Sanggye Gyeltshen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES gtsang smyon he ru ka sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Representative of the Kagyu school, author of the biographies of Marpas and Milarepas
DATE OF BIRTH 1452
DATE OF DEATH 1507