Person:Rong zom chos kyi bzang po

Names

Tibetan: རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོ་

Wylie:

• rong zom chos kyi bzang po
• rong zom

Other Transliterations in use:

• Rongzom

Dates

Born: 11th cent.
Died:

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P3816 TBRC Says:

important early rnying ma scholar ; he wrote many treatises, few of which survive included among his works are commentaries on the works of the gsar ma tradition W19801

biographical information W19822

listing of works by rong zom W30439

according to source rong zom chos bzang was born in 1040 and died in 1159; khamtrul notes that he belonged to the middle of the 11th century W27401

biodata

Source describes his gsung 'bum to have contained over a hundred volumes, most of which were lost. rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas (P697) was the first to attempt to collect Rongzom's writings and republish them at Dzogchen Gonpa's shrI seng chos grwa. This task was continued by Mipham.

Was recognized by Atisha as an emanation of the great Indian mahasiddha, nag po spyod pa.

Writings

• Works associated with Rong zom chos kyi bzang po in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog