Longchenpa
1308 CE–1364 CE · Yoru (Yarlung region)
1308–1364 CE
Longchenpa (1308–1364 CE) was the great systematizer of the Nyingma school's Dzogchen ('Great Perfection') teachings and one of the most important authors in Tibetan religious literature. Trained across the traditions of his day, he organized the Dzogchen transmissions into a coherent body of thought and practice in works such as the 'Seven Treasuries.' He is a securely historical and richly documented figure.
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Yoru (Yarlung region)
What they did here
Birthplace of Longchenpa.
About Yoru (Yarlung region)
Yoru is an old district of south-central Tibet, in the area of the Dra valley near Yarlung. The Nyingma master Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa), the great fourteenth-century systematiser of the Dzogchen teachings, was born there in 1308.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Longchenpa’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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- Ashikaga Takauji· 1305 CE–1358 CE
- Gajah Mada· –1364 CE
- Firuz Shah Tughlaq· 1309 CE–1388 CE
- Orhan· 1281 CE–1362 CE
- Muhammad bin Tughluq· –1351 CE
- Murad I· 1326 CE–1389 CE
- Ivan I Kalita· 1288 CE–1340 CE
- Emperor Go-Daigo· 1288 CE–1339 CE
- Al-Nasir Muhammad· 1285 CE–1341 CE
- Acamapichtli· –1395 CE
- Hayam Wuruk· 1334 CE–1389 CE
- Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang)· 1328 CE–1398 CE
- Amda Seyon I· –1344 CE
- Barquq· 1336 CE–1399 CE
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