Tsongkhapa
1357 CE–1419 CE · Tsongkha valley (Amdo)
1357–1419 CE
Tsongkhapa (1357–1419 CE) was the founder of the Gelug school, the tradition of the later Dalai Lamas. Born in the Tsongkha valley of Amdo in northeastern Tibet, he became a wide-ranging scholar and reformer, emphasizing monastic discipline, rigorous study, and the Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka of Candrakīrti. His 'Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path' (Lamrim Chenmo)—building on Atiśa's Kadam lineage—is among the most influential works in Tibetan Buddhism. In 1409 he founded Ganden monastery near Lhasa, the first of the three great Gelug monastic universities, and died there in 1419. He is securely dated and documented.
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Tsongkha valley (Amdo)
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Birthplace of Tsongkhapa.
About Tsongkha valley (Amdo)
The Tsongkha valley lies in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet, in modern Qinghai province, China. It was the birthplace, in 1357, of Tsongkhapa, the reformer and scholar who founded the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism; the great Kumbum Monastery was later built near his birthplace.
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