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Tsongkhapa
Collection:
Rizong monastery
School
of art: Sman-bris
18th
century
Tsongkhapa
He
lived in the 14th century A.D. in the Amdo province of Tibet. He was the
founder and reformer of Gelukpa sect. He is regarded as an incarnation of
Maµjużr˘ who is the embodiment of wisdom. Lord Buddha had prophesied
that Sumati would come to Tibet and diffuse his doctrine there.
He
obtained the ordination of monkhood in his early age and commenced to
study Buddha's doctrine. He travelled to central Tibet for higher
education on Buddha's teachings. He deeply studied both SŁtra and Tantra
for many years. Randawa was his chief teacher, from whom he specially
learnt Madhyamika philosophy expounded by Nˇgˇrjuna.
He
composed many books on SŁtra and Tantra in which he tried to explicate
the important and knotted points. He emphasised the doctrine of relativity
as taught by Lord Buddha. The void and relativity are the two different
faces of the same reality which are the ultimate nature of the phenomena. dBu
mai Ltava is the main conception of Gelugpa order founded by
Tsongkhapa.
