Nubchen Sangye Yeshe
| Nubchen Sangye Yeshe | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 努千桑傑耶喜 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 努千桑杰耶喜 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | གནུབས་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Nǔqiān Sāngjié Yéxǐ |
| Wade–Giles | Nu3-ch'ien1 Sang1-chieh2 Yeh2-hsi3 |
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| Wylie | gnubs chen sangs rgyas ye shes |
Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (9th century) was one of the twenty-five principal students of Guru Padmasambhava, founder of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Nubchen Sangye Yeshe is considered an important figure in the development of the White Sangha of lay yogis (ngagpas).
As well as his fame as one of the 25 principal disciples of Padmasambhava, Nubchen Sangye Yeshe is held in different sources to have been a direct disciple of Shri Simha, Vimalamitra, Kamalashila, Dhanadhala, Tshaktung Nagpo, Shantigarbha, Dhanasamskrita, Shakyadeva, Dhanarakshita, the Brahman Prakashalamkara, Dharmabodhi, Dharmaraja, Tsuglag Pelge, Acarya Vasudhara, Chetsenkye, Nak Jñanakumara, Sogdian Pelgi Yeshe and Gyelwei Yönten.
Nubchen Sangye Yeshe wrote Armor Against Darkness (Wylie: mun pa’i go cha), a major commentary on The Six Tantras Clarifying the Six Limits (Wylie: dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo), the central tantra of the Anuyoga tradition.
Namkhai Norbu et al. (1986: p.23) identifies Nubchen Sangye Yeshe as the author of a treatise, Samten Migdrön (Tib. bsam gtan mig sgron).
Dalton (2003: unpaginated) states that:
Nubchen Sanggyé Yeshé is renowned for having preserved a number of tantric lineages through the so-called “dark period” of Tibetan history (roughly 842-978 CE), when state-supported monastic Buddhism fell into decline. Nubchen authored many works, including the Lamp for the Eye in Contemplation (bsam gtan mig sgron), an extensive discussion of early Tibetan contemplative systems. But by far his longest work is his little read Armor Against Darkness (mun pa’i go cha), a systematic commentary on the Compendium of the Intentions Sūtra. In preparing his commentary, Nubchen studied directly under Chetsenkye and the other translators of the Compendium Sūtra.
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