Bsod nams rgyal mtshan

བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Sönam Gyaltsen(1312 - 1375) 

Born in:

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za lu khang gsar

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Male Water Mouse, Template:OrdNum sexagenary cycle.

Sonam Gyeltsen was a prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy, Gyal rab sal ba'i me long (rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long), commonly translated as The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the Kālacakratantra, and composed a commentary on Shantideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. His influential writings on the Lamdre (lam 'bras) tradition were collected in a volume called the Lamdre Ponak (lam 'bras pod nag), one of the first major written works on Lamdre. He also sponsored the first edition of the collected works of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya (sa skya gong ma lnga).

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