His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama
The 1st Dalai Lama: Gedun Drupa (1391–1474) Title: 1st Dalai Lama (title given posthumously)Born: 1391, Gyurmey Rupa, near Sakya, in Tsang region of central TibetDied:...
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Arya Nāgārjuna
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama stated in the Praise of Seventeen Nalanda Scholars: རྒྱལ་བའི་ལུང་བཞིན་ཐེག་མཆོག་དབུ་མའི་སྲོལ། ། You brilliantly clarified the meaning of reality itself, the...
Arya Deva
His Holiness the Dalai Lama stated in the Praise of Seventeen Nalanda Scholars: དེ་སྲས་ཐུ་བོ་མཁས་ཤིང་གྲུབ་པའི་མཆོག ། You were the foremost of his disciple, supremely learned and...
Śāntarakṣita
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Aacharya Atisha
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Padmasambhava
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