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The Autobiography of Jamgon Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813-1899) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. He was a founder and the single most important proponent of the nonsectarian movement that flourished in eastern Tibet and remains popular today. Two additional texts discuss his previous lives and recount Kongtrul's final days. The "Autobiogra
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Hardcover
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549 pages
Published
February 10th 2003
by Snow Lion Publications
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The first
Jamgon Kongtrul
,
Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé
(འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་
'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas
), was one of the preeminent scholars in 19th century Tibet, often referred to as
Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
. The name Kongtrul is a contraction of Kongpo Bamtang Tulku, of whom he was held to be an incarnation. He also was a
tertön
, or "revealer of Dharma treasures," a
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