Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity
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Je Tsongkhapa
Tsongkhapa Losang Dragpa (1357-1419) is arguably the finest scholar-practitioner produced by the Buddhism of Tibet. Renowned for both his written works and his meditative accomplishments, he founded the Gelug school, which produced the lineage of the Dalai Lamas.
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Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity - Je Tsongkhapa
Introduction
TSONGKHAPA, the author of Praise for Dependent Relativity, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced. He composed these verses on the very morning that he abandoned perplexity and attained the final view. In them, he identifies the essence of this view as the harmony of dependent relativity and emptiness. He would later delineate it with fine precision and logical coherence in five great, longer, prose works that are a significant component, if not the core, of his enduring legacy.
Tsongkhapa was born in 1357 in the Tsongkha district of Amdo in northeast Tibet, where Kumbum Monastery now stands. From childhood, his life was wholly devoted to the study and contemplation of Buddha’s words, and early animated by the bodhisattva ideal, he strove only for the fully evolved stage of buddhahood, with the vast motivation of helping all beings find freedom. He began his monastic education at the age of three, and he left his home province at the age of sixteen to seek teachings from the masters of central Tibet in the peripatetic style of the times, not restricting himself to any one school or tradition but engaging with many. It was not long before he was called on to teach himself.
His skill in debating and teaching soon brought him fame, but eventually, in 1392, the wisdom-deity Manjushri, with whom Tsongkhapa had established a direct visionary connection, advised him to withdraw from extensive teaching and spend more time in contemplation and