Potowa Rinchen Sel
Potowa Rinchen Sel (T. po to ba rin chen gsal པོ་ཏོ་བ་རིན་ཆེན་གསལ་) (1027-1105) was one of the three main students of Dromtönpa, and the one who particularly received all of his main writings (Wyl. gzhung).[1]
At the age of twenty-eight, in 1058, Potowa went to Radreng Monastery and became a student of Dromtönpa, who was the main disciple of Atiśa Dīpaṃkara.[2]
After Dromtönpa passed away in 1064, Potowa went into retreat for roughly fifteen years.[2] At the age of fifty he began teaching, staying at various places. Later in life he founded the Poto Monastery in Penyul. He also served as abbot of Reting Monastery.[2]
Potowa held the teaching lineage of the Six Basic Texts of the Kadampa:[2][3]
- two texts on meditation:
- two texts by Shantideva on conduct:
- the Shikshasamuccaya
- the Bodhisattva-avatara
- two texts by intended to generate devotion:
- the Jataka
- the Udanavarga
He also taught Atiśa's Bodhipatapradipa.[2]
His main students were Sharawa Yönten Drak and Langri Thangpa, who were known as the 'Sun and Moon of Ü'.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Potowa Rinchen Sal, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
Potowa Rinchen Sel, Treasury of Lives
- ↑ Ringu Tulku 2006, s.v. Chapter 4.
Sources
Ringu Tulku (2006), The Ri-Me Philosophy of Jamgon Kungtrul the Great, Shambhala