On the Life of gNubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes

Abstract

Nubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes is renowned as an important master of the rNying-ma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and in particular as the author of two seminal works of early Tibetan Vajrayāna, the Mun-pa’i go-cha1 and the bSam-gtan mig-sgron.2 In two previous articles I discussed the latter work, examining the section on dreams in the gradualist chapter3 and gNubs-chen’s exposition of Atiyoga in the seventh chapter.4 In the present essay I would like to bring together the information we have for the life and dating of its author. I will be drawing on the various sources available for Sangs-rgyas ye-shes’ life, all the while seeking to distinguish, insofar as this is possible, historical fact from pious fiction.

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