Person:Dol po pa
Names
Tibetan: དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
Wylie:
Other Transliterations in use:
Dates
Born: 1292 at gtsang stod mnga' ris dol po gru gsum spu mdo
Died: 1361
Affiliation
Other Biographical Information
major figure in the 'bro transmission of the kalacakra precepts
"jo nang kun mkkhyen dol po shes rab rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po"
thob yig gang+gA'i chu rgyun (v. 2, p. 7)
1304. Fled to skyi-stengs dgon for ordination.
Teacher (not recorded): bla-ma 'jam-pa'i-dbyangs taught dol-po-pa the byams chos sde lnga, dbu ma rigs, bstod tshogs, gtam tshogs, dbang lung rjes gnang for about four years before 1314.
1322. Goes to jo-nang where he meets his principal master, chos-rje yon-tan-rgya-mtsho.
1327-1331. Builds the great mchod-rten of jo-nang in memory of yon-tan-rgya-mtsho.
1336. Travels to sa-skya, chu-bzang, lha-rtse rdzong, shangs, snar-thang, etc. to meditate and erect various images and retreats.
1348. Invited to rta-nag by the ri-khud-pa and taught for a year there.
Travelled to dbus where he taught extensively.
Writings comprise 174 treatises:
grub mtha' skor: 16
phar phyin skor: 7
gsol 'debs skor: 25
Rdo rje 'phreng ba'i skor: 3
Spring yig skor: 8
Gdams ngag dang dris lan skor: 12
Rnam thar sogs kyi skor: 16
Smon lam skor: 3
Bkra shis skor: 4
Main Students
blo gros rgyal mtshan
phyogs las rnam rgyal
blo gros dpal bzang
rin chen bzang po
dkon mchog rgyal mtshan
kun dga' dpal
chos grags dpal
ma Ni ka shrI
bsod nams grags pa
kun dga' 'bum
blo gros rgyal mtshan
rin chen tshul khrims
blo gros dpal
phun tshogs dpal
lha'i rgyal mtshan
bsod nams bzang po
blo gros grags pa
g.yag sde paN chen
chos grags bzang po
Main Teachers
tshul khrims snying po
skyi ston 'jam dbyangs
byang chub seng+ge
tshul khrims bzang po
grags pa rgyal mtshan
shes rab bzang po
gzhon nu bzang po
blo gros bstan pa
bsod nams grags pa
nag 'bum
yon tan rgya mtsho
yon tan rgya mtsho
Quotes
Writings About Dol po pa
Writings