Chapa Chökyi Sengé

Chapa Chökyi Sengé (Tib. ཕྱྭ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་, Wyl. phywa pa chos kyi seng ge or ཆ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་, cha pa chos kyi seng+ge) (1109-1169) — an early Tibetan master who followed and defended the Svatantrika tradition. He was abbot of the great monastic seat of Sangpu Neuthok for eighteen years.

Further Reading

• Helmut Tauscher, 'Phya pa chos kyi seng ge as a Svātantrika' in The Svātantrika - Prāsaṅgika Distinction, edited by Georges B. J. Dreyfus and Sara L. McClintock, Wisdom Publications, 2003
• van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. Phya-pa Chos-kyi Seng-ge's Impact on Tibetan Epistemological Theory. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 5 (1978), pp. 355-369
• van der Kuijp, Leonard W.J. Contributions to the development of Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983.

External Links

• TBRC profile
• Early bKa’ gdams pa scholasticism: Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge’s contribution to Tibetan epistemology