Jamgön Kongtrul is often described as one of the greatest scholars in the history of Tibet. A Karma Kagyu lama and model of rimay ecumenical activity, he collaborated closely with the Sakya lama Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and the Nyingma treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa, in the opening of sacred sites and the revelation of treasure. His prodigious literary output, categorized as the Five Treasuries, cover the entire range of Tibetan Buddhist theory and ritual as well as numerous other topics, and preserved scores of Tibetan religious traditions that were at the time in danger of being lost. Based primarily at Pelpung Monastery, in Derge in eastern Tibet, he built the nearby hermitage of Tsadra Rinchen Drak, which became his personal seat. Multiple incarnation lines were recognized after his death, including the main Jamgön Kongtrul line, based at Pelpung, the Dzokchen Kongtrul line and the Dzigar Kongtrul line. ... read more at
Philosophical positions of this person
Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Definitive
Do all beings have buddha-nature?
Yes
To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?
Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?
Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?
Zhentong
Are there one or three vehicles on the path to buddhahood?
Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?
Meditative Tradition
What is Buddha-nature?
Does the author advocate the Svatantrika or Prasangika view of emptiness?
Other names
བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་ · other names (Tibetan)
ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
འཇམ་མགོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
པདྨ་གར་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་ · other names (Tibetan)
པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྩལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
པདྨ་གར་དབང་ཕྲིན་ལས་འགྲོ་འདུལ་རྩལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
blo gros mtha' yas · other names (Wylie)
yon tan rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)
'jam mgon chos kyi rgyal po · other names (Wylie)
pad+ma gar dbang blo gros mtha' yas · other names (Wylie)
pad+ma gar gyi dbang phyug rtsal · other names (Wylie)
pad+ma gar dbang phrin las 'gro 'dul rtsal · other names (Wylie)
