Ngok Legpe Sherab

Ngok Legpe Sherab (T. rngog legs pa'i shes rab) (b.1018 - d.1115). A master of Kadam tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was one of the three main students of Atisha, and the uncle of the translator Ngok Loden Sherab.

The Tsadra editors state:

Ngok Lekpai Sherab was a founding figure of the Kadam tradition and Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism. One of the "three heart sons" of Atiśa, along with Khuton and Dromton, his distinctive contribution was to provide the Kadam tradition with rigorous intellectual discipline combined with tantric practice. He was the founder, with his nephew Ngok Loden Sherab, of Sangpu Neutog Monastery. He was a master of pramāṇa and the guardian of Atiśa’s secret oral teachings, especially the Sixteen Drops.

Ringu Tulku states:

In the Iron Pig year, 1071, Ngok established the dharma center of Sangphu Neuthok and cultivated the teachings there. Later on, this institute was developed further by his nephew, the great translator Ngok Loden Sherab, and it became the source of all the Tibetan shedras, or centers for advanced study.

Sources

• Ringu Tulku (2006), The Ri-Me Philosophy of Jamgon Kungtrul the Great, Shambhala 

Further reading

• Ngok Lekpai Sherab, Treasury of Lives

• Ngok Lekpai Sherab, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project
• Ngok Lekpai Sherab, Tsadra Commons