Gunaprabha
ཡོན་ཏན་འོད།
Teacher: Vasubandhu དབྱིག་གཉེན་ Post | Timeline Thangka: Seventeen Nalanda Masters Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
Month: April 2021
Aryadeva
འཕགས་པ་ལྷ།
Teacher: Nagarjuna ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། Post | Timeline Thangka: Seventeen Nalanda Masters Links: Rigpa Wiki | Himalayan Art Resources
Seventeen Great Masters (Panditas) of Nalanda Monastery
Nalanda University ནཱ་ལེནྡྲ་ in India was the largest and most known of the ancient Indian monastic universities. The Nalanda monastery is associated with some of the greatest figures in Mahayana Buddhism. These prominent are known as the Seventeen Great Masters (Pandits) Nalanda Monastery.
Nagarjuna
ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ།
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Jambhala
ཛམ་བྷ་ལ།
༄༅། །ཨོཾ་ཛཾ་བྷ་ལ་ཛ་ལེནྡྲཱ་ཡ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ༔ Tibetan mantra: om dzambha la dzalendra ya soha Sanskrit mantra: oṃ dzaṁbhala dzalenḍrāye svāhā Glossary Links: Rigpa Wiki | Lotsawa House | Himalayan Art Resources
Tandin Nye, Thimphu, Bhutan
According to the Nyeyig, Guru Rinpoche གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། in the 8th century is believed to have meditated on the practice of Tandin རྟ་མགྲིན་ (Hayagriva) at this place in order to subdue the evil forces of the region. Centuries later, great masters such as Phajo Drugom during the 13th century and Terton Drukdra Dorji in the 17th century is also supposed to have meditated and practiced at this place.
