Drokmi Lotsawa
Drokmi Lotsawa Shakya Yeshe (Skt. Drokmi Śākya Yeshé; T. brog mi lo tsA wa shAkya ye shes བྲོག་མི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཡེ་ཤེས་) (992-1072/1074).[1] A great translator active during the later dissemination of the Buddhist teachings from India to Tibet. He was an important master in the transmission of the Lamdré teachings to Tibet. He was from Lhatsé in Western Tsang. He family was from the Ban branch of the Drokmi clan.
One of the most important sources of the Sakya teachings is the great Indian master Virupa (9th century), who was one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas. His lineage passed through Gayadhara (994-1043) to his Tibetan disciple, Drokmi Lotsawa. In turn, Drokmi Lotsawa passed the lineage to his main disciple, Khön Könchok Gyalpo (1034-1102), founder of the Sakya school.[2]
Marpa Lotsawa also studied for fifteen years under the guidance of Drokmi Lotsawa, learning Sanskrit and other subjects.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Davidson has his dates as 993-1077. See Davidson, Ronald. Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, page 164.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Drokmi Lotsawa, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Further reading
- Cyrus Stearns, Luminous Lives: The Story of the Early Masters of the Lam 'bras Tradition in Tibet, Wisdom Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-0861713073
External links
Drokmi Sakya Yeshe, Treasury of Lives
'brog_mi_lo_tsA_ba, Tsadra Commons- Drokmi Lotsāwa, Buddha Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative
- Drokmi Lotsawa, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- Drokmi Lotsawa, sakyatradition.org
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