An esteemed 20th century Kagyu master from Zurmang Monastery in eastern Tibet with strong ties to the Nyingma and Ri-me traditions. He was a student of the 11th Tai Situ and the famed Khenpo Zhenga with whom he studied at the Śrī Siṃha monastic university at Dzogchen Monastery. His pedogical manual (yig cha) for the latter's interlinear commentaries to the thirteen major Indian treatises came to form an important part of the curriculum at the monastic university at Dzongsar Monastery.
Mentioned in
Other-Emptiness and the Great Middle Way
The philosophical concept of other-emptiness (zhentong) has long since been a lightning rod for controversy on the Tibetan plateau. Some of its most ardent supporters have had their works banned, yet it not only endured, but gained the support of prominent adherents of almost every one of the major Tibetan schools. Its roots are intertwined with the concept of buddha-nature, though in particular it was via the so-called meditative tradition of exegesis of the Ratnagotravibhāga associated with Tsen Khawoche that zhentong's origins are traced. So much so that the label zhentongpa has been retroactively applied to various figures in this lineage that actually predate its usage—individuals that may have never heard the term, let alone utilized it in their own compositions...
Other names
- ཟུར་མང་མཁན་པོ་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- པདྨ་བི་ཛ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- zur mang mkhan po pad+ma rnam rgyal · other names (Wylie)
- pad+ma bi dza · other names (Wylie)
- Surmang Padma Namgyal · other names
Affiliations & relations
- Kagyu · religious affiliation
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- zur mang rnam rgyal rtse'i bshad grwa · primary professional affiliation
- shrI sing ha chos grwa · other professional affiliation
- dpal spungs thub bstan chos 'khor gling · other professional affiliation
- gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba · teacher
- Tai Situpa, 11th · teacher
