{"id":197,"date":"2022-09-24T00:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T00:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/library\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2024-08-23T01:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T01:14:33","slug":"nalanda-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/library\/subject-guides\/madhyamaka\/nalanda-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nalanda Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:5.76%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In the beginning, I sought much learning.<br \/>\nIn the middle, all teachings dawned on me as spiritual exhortation.<br \/>\nIn the end, I practiced day and night.<br \/>\nI dedicated all this virtue for the dharma to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking this over, how well my destiny is fulfilled!<br \/>\nThank you very much, Noble Lord Wisdom Treasure!<\/p>\n<p>With the darkness of confusion concerning the points to adopt or reject<br \/>\nNot dispelled by the lamp of perfect learning,<br \/>\nIf you do not know even the path, what need to speak<br \/>\nOf entering the supreme city of liberation!<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, not content with a partial or superficial understanding<br \/>\nOf the treatises of the Invincible Lord of Dharma (Ajita, or Maitreya)<br \/>\nAnd those of (the great sages) widely renowned in India<br \/>\nAs the Six Ornaments and the Two Supreme Ones,<br \/>\nI studied them all in great detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8211;Tenzin Tsepag, trans. &#8220;Destiny Fulfilled: Tsongkhapa\u2019s Spiritual Training as a Song of Realization,&#8221; verses 4-6. (<a href=\"https:\/\/jangchuplamrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Archive-Texts\/JCLR-ENGLISH-12-20121121-DestinyFulfilled.pdf\">jangchuplamrim.org<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:5.76%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Prayer to Kindle the Three Kinds of Faith<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lotsawahouse.org\/tibetan-masters\/fourteenth-dalai-lama\/seventeen-great-panditas-nalanda\">lotsawahouse.org<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAddressed to the Seventeen Great Pa\u1e47\u1e0ditas of Glorious N\u0101land\u0101.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nBstan-&#8216;dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV and Adam Pearcey, trans. 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seventeen Great Masters (Panditas) of Nalanda Monastery<\/strong><br \/>\nImages depicting the pandits from a Tibetan thangka<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thestupa.com\/culture-history\/seventeen-great-masters-panditas-of-nalanda-monastery\/\">thestupa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seventeen Nalanda Masters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigpawiki.org\/index.php?title=Seventeen_Nalanda_Masters\">rigpawiki.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Seventeen Pandits of Nalanda Monastery<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fpmt.org\/mandala\/archives\/mandala-for-2012\/july\/the-seventeen-pandits-of-nalanda-monastery\/\">fpmt.org<\/a><br \/>\nBlumenthal, James A. 2012. <em>Mandala Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Important Key Events and Influential Buddhist Figures in the History of Tibet, India, and the Himalayan Region.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Stupa. <a href=\"https:\/\/thestupa.com\/timeline\/\">thestupa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-color:#f1f1f1;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><hr>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000\">Nalanda Masters Quick Links<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/library\/subject-guides\/madhyamaka\/source-treatises-of-madhyamaka\/nagarjuna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Na\u0304ga\u0304rjuna<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; 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