P429: nya dbon kun dga' dpal/

• nya dbon kun dga' dpal mkhan rgyud rnam gsum byon tshul [ms] (21a)

• rtse chen chos rje (identity uncertain) rgya bod kyi chos 'byung [ms] (40b)

• Date of birth: shing mo bya (tib); 1285 jo nang chos 'byung [1992] (p. 38), BDRC (P2010)
• Date of birth: 1285? Van der Kuijp [forthcoming] (p. 40)
• Date of death: sa lug (tib); 1379 jo nang chos 'byung [1992] (p. 38), Jackson 1991 (p. 224), BDRC (P2010)
• Date of death: 1379? Van der Kuijp [forthcoming] (p. 40)
• Active Period: ca. 1300-1380 Van der Kuijp 1983 (p. 41)
• Active Period: 1345-1439 Smith 2001 (p. 373), Sørensen & Hazod 2007 (p. 694 n. 1), Martin 2013 (p. 247 n. 20)

• on his difficulty of establishing his dates, see Stearns 2010b (pp. 365f. n. 394)

• active until at least the end of the fourteenth century: "[...] ascended the monastic seat of Jonang sometime after 1381 [...], placed the great adept Kunga Lodro on the monastic seat of Tsechen Monastery in 1386, [...] wrote his commentary to Dolpopa's General Commentary on the Doctrine in 1393 [...] wrote annotations to his own Ornament of Luminosity ('od gsal rgyan) in the Fire Ox Year (me mo glang) of 1397" Stearns 2010b (p. 366 n. 394)

h2. Teachers

• dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan/ (1292–1361) jo nang chos 'byung [1992] (p. 38); received the Lamdre from him Stearns 2010b (p. 115)
• bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan/ (1312–1375) mang thos bstan rtsis [1987] (p. 188)

• 1371: became mkhan po/ of new bshad grwa/ at rtse chen in 1371 (lcags mo phag) in 'phags rin's 52th year (c. 1320) rab kun 'phags rnam thar [1987] (pp. 16f.)