Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe

Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe (T. sga rab 'byams pa kun dga' ye shes སྒ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་) (1397-1470) was a scholar and teacher within the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He wa considered to be an emanation of Buddha Maitreya and the great pandita Smritijñanakirti. He founded Tharlam Monastery—the monastery of Gatön Ngawang Lekpa and Dezhung Rinpoche—in 1436.

Writings

Ga Rabjampa composed four volumes of writing, including:

• A commentary on the Hevajra Tantra

• A commentary on Chanting the Names of Mañjuśrī

• A commentary on the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra

• A commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training, Stream of Nectar: Pith Instructions for Cultivating Relative and Absolute Bodhichitta, byang chub kyi sems gnyis bsgom pa’i man ngag bdud rtsi’i chu rgyun (Translated as To Dispel the Misery of the World)

• An overview of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra

• A commentary on the detailed explanation of the branches (ཡན་ལག་རྒྱས་བཤད་, yan lag rgyas bshad) [of the Abhisamayālankara]

• Writings on the three turnings of the wheel of Dharma, the twentifold saṅgha, dependent origination, the dhyānas and formless absorptions

• An overview of the Ornament of Mahāyāna Sūtras

• A commentary on the Sublime Continuum

• An overview of the Vinaya

• A commentary on the Vinaya Sutra

• An overview of the Abhidharmakośa

• A summary of logic and epistemology (pramāṇa)

• A maṇḍala rite for Guhyasamāja Mañjuvajra (གསང་འདུས་འཇམ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, gsang ‘dus ‘jam pa’i rdo rje)

• A clarification of difficult points in the Hevajrābhisamayaṭīkā (ཀྱེ་རྡོར་མངོན་རྟོགས་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ་, kye rdor mngon rtogs rgya cher ‘grel pa)

• An explanation of the body maṇḍala

• A praise of Sakya Monastery called Ocean of Blessings

• A praise of the Anyen Dampa 'uncle and nephew' called Beautiful Rosary of Jewels

• A praise of Drung Tsultrim Gyaltsen called Rosary of Jewels

• Other praises

• A fulfilment and healing rite called Eliminating All Obstacles (བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་, bar chad kun sel)

• Songs of realization

• An aspiration prayer called The Heart of the Mahāyāna Path

• An aspiration prayer for Mind Training called Stream of Elixir

Plus a large record of teachings received (གསན་ཡིག་, gsan yig) in 133 folios.

Further reading

• Ga Rabjampa, To Dispel the Misery of the World: Whispered Teachings of the Bodhisattvas, translated by Rigpa Translations (Wisdom Publications, 2012)

External links

• TBRC Profile
• Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe, Treasury of Lives

• Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe, Rigpa Shedra Wiki