Sangphu Neuthok
Sangphu Neuthok (T. gsang phu ne'u thog གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག་) - a Tibetan dharma center established by one of Atisha’s main students, Ngok Legpe Sherab, in 1071. "Later on, this institute was developed further by his nephew, the great translator Ngok Loden Sherab, and it became the source of all the Tibetan shedras, or centers for advanced study."[1]
Other important teachers at the center included Chapa Chökyi Senge, Yaktön Sangye Pal and Rongtön Sheja Kunrig. The great Longchen Rabjam also studied here in his youth.[2]
Originally a Kadampa center with two colleges, it evolved into a monastery that includes both Sakya and Geluk traditions.[3]
In its heyday it was home to some eleven separate colleges, affiliated with both the Gelug and Sakya schools.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Ringu Tulku 2006, Chapter 4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Sangphu Neuthok, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- ↑
Sangphu Neuthok, Treasury of Lives
Sources
Ringu Tulku (2006), The Ri-Me Philosophy of Jamgon Kungtrul the Great, Shambhala
Further Reading
- Sangphu Neuthok, Treasury of Lives
- Sangphu Neuthok, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
TBRC Profile- Onodo, Shunzo. Abbatial Successions of the Colleges of gSang phu sNe'u thog Monastery. Bull. of the National Museum of Ethmology 15 no 4 (1990) 149-1071.
- van der Kuijp, Leonard. The Monastery of Gsang-phu Ne'u-thog and Its Abbatial Succession from ca. 1073 to 1250. Berliner Indologische Studien 3 (1987) pp. 103-127.