Chone Drakpa Shedrup

Chone Drakpa Shedrup (Tibetan: ཅོ་ནེ་གྲགས་པ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་; Wylie: co ne grags pa bshad sgrub; Chinese: 卓尼•扎巴谢珠, Pinyin: Zhuoni Zhaba Xiezhu; 1675–1748) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk of the Gelug (dGe lugs) school. He was from the region of Chone (Jonê) in Amdo (southwest Gansu) and had studied at the Ramoche Temple in Lhasa,[1] where he later headed a Dratshang (monastic college).[2]

He authored numerous texts and commentaries. His Collected Works in 18 volumes with information about the local scholastic traditions are contained in the Tibetan series Mes po'i shul bzhag.[3]

His commentary on the Heart Sutra has been translated into English by Fedor Stracke.[4]

References and notes

  1. ↑ A temple which is known in Chinese under the name 'Little Jokhang' (小昭寺).
  2. ↑ cf. Tang Jingfu (1991:201)
  3. ↑ Mes po'i shul bzhag, vols. 88–105
  4. ↑ Bookshop link

Bibliography

  • Tang Jingfu (唐景福): Zhongguo Zangchuan Fojiao ming seng lu (中国藏传佛教名僧录). Lanzhou: Gansu Nationalities Publishing House (甘肃民族出版社), 1991. Online

Further reading

  • Rock, Joseph F. (1928). Life Among the Lamas of Choni. Joseph F. Rock. National Geographic Magazine. November 1928, pp. 569–619.
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