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Kunpang Tukje Tsöndru(1243 - 1313) 

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Dok (mdog) region of Tsang

Kunpang Tukje Tsondru (kun spangs thugs rje brtson 'grus) as he was later known, was born in 1243 in the Dok (mdog) region of Tsang. He studied in many of the monasteries of U and Tsang, such as Sakya (sa skya dgon).

When he was staying at the master Jamyang Sarma's ('jam dbyangs gsar ma) monastery of Kyangdur (rkyang 'dur), Kunpang received the transmission of all the treatises and oral instructions possessed by the great Choku Ozer (chos sku 'od zer). In particular, although he had previously studied the Ra (rwa) tradition of Kālacakra, he now received from Choku Ozer the Kālacakra initiation, the explanation of the Kālacakra Tantra, the great Vimalaprabhā commentary, and an experiential transmission of the Kālacakra completion-stage practices of the six-branch yoga in the Dro ('bro) tradition. This caused exceptional experience and realization to burst forth. He also studied with Yeshe Rinchen (ye shes rin chen).

In total, Kunpang received and practiced about seventeen different traditions of the six-branch yoga. When he was meditating on stopping vitality (srog rtsol), which is the third of the six branches, it is said that the vital winds of the five elements became extremely forceful and he gained amazing paranormal abilities. He also had visions of countless deities, such as the eleven-faced form of Avalokiteśvara.
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Michael Sheehy at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium

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Michael Sheehy explores the “images of emptiness” or expressions of emptiness in the Kālacakra Tantra. He discusses how these were interpreted by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) and his immediate disciples to be direct expressions of tathāgatagarbha.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.

Sheehy, Michael. "Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 46:01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7z5pR1EGA.;Michael Sheehy at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Dol po pa;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Zhentong;Jonang;Vajrayana;History of buddha-nature in Tibet;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Yu mo mi bskyod rdo rje;Nya dbon kun dga' dpal;Phyogs las rnam rgyal;Tsong kha pa;Vimalaprabhā;Jo nang lo tsA ba blo gros dpal;Jonang Yon tan rgya mtsho;Michael Sheehy;Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals

Affiliations & relations

• Jonang · religious affiliation
• Yeshe Rinchen · teacher
• Chos sku 'od zer · teacher
• Shes rab 'od zer · teacher
• G.yang 'bar · teacher
• Yonten Gyatso · student
• Jangsem Gyelwa Yeshe · student
• Yon tan rgya mtsho · student
• Grags pa rgyal mtshan · student
• Ratna gu ru · student
• Kun dga' rgyal ba · student
• Dbang rgyal · student