Person:Tsong kha pa

Names

Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པའི་དཔལ་
Wylie:

• bla ma tsong kha pa
• tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa'i dpal
• rje rin po che
• blo bzang grags pa'i dpal
• tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa
• rje rin po che blo bzang grags pa
• su ma ti kIr rti
• khri 01 blo bzang grags pa - title
• blo bzang grags pa - Ordained name

Other Transliterations in use:

• Lama Tsong Khapa
• Dzong ka ba
• Tsong Khapa
• Tsong Kha pa
• Tsong Khaba

Dates

Birth: 1357 in tsong kha

Death: 1419

Affiliation

Founder of the dge lugs pa tradition

Other Biographical Information

• TBRC RID: P64

• Assumes office 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Leaves office 1419 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Founds monastery 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Final Ordination 1381 yar klung rnam rgyal dgon

Main Teachers

• Karmapa, 4th (rol pa'i rdo rje)

Writings

• Works associated with Tsong kha pa in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i nyams len bsdus don gyi tshigs su bcad pa (3, pp 63-69)
• byin rlabs nye brgyud kyi gsol 'debs dngos grub snye ma (3, pp 71-72)
• lam gyi gtso bo rnam gsum (4, pp 435-438)