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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]]. 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

==External Links==
*{{TBRC|P396|TBRC Profile}}
*[https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Shakya-Chokden/6351 Biography at Treasury of Lives]

[[Category:Sakya Masters]]