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'''Shakya Chokden''' (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན་, [[Wyl.]] ''shAkya mchog ldan'') (1428-1507) - Born in the Earth Monkey year of the seventh calendrical cycle, he studied with [[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]] and [[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]]. | '''Shakya Chokden''' (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན་, [[Wyl.]] ''shAkya mchog ldan'') (1428-1507) - Born in the Earth Monkey year of the seventh calendrical cycle, he studied with [[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]] and [[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]]. After experiences from a longer [[Hevajra]] retreat he wrote commentaries on scriptures that set forth a entitylessness position (''niḥsvabhāvavāda''). Many consider this synonymous to the [[Madhyamika]] system. | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*{{TBRC|P396|TBRC Profile}} | *{{TBRC|P396|TBRC Profile}} | ||
*[https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Shakya-Chokden/6351 Biography at Treasury of Lives] | |||
[[Category:Sakya Masters]] | [[Category:Sakya Masters]] | ||
Revision as of 23:05, 18 May 2018
Shakya Chokden (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་མཆོག་ལྡན་, Wyl. shAkya mchog ldan) (1428-1507) - Born in the Earth Monkey year of the seventh calendrical cycle, he studied with Rongtön Sheja Kunrig and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. After experiences from a longer Hevajra retreat he wrote commentaries on scriptures that set forth a entitylessness position (niḥsvabhāvavāda). Many consider this synonymous to the Madhyamika system.
Further Reading
- Komarovski, Yaroslav. Echoes of empty luminosity: Reevaluation and unique interpretation of Yogacara and Nihsvabhavavada Madhyamaka by the fifteenth century Tibetan thinker Sakya mchog ldan, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia (2007).
- Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity: The Golden Pandita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogacara and Madhyamaka, SUNY 2011
- Shakya Chokden, Three Texts on Madhyamaka, trans. Komarovski Iaroslav, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2002, ISBN 978-8186470268
