Gö Lotsawa Shyönnu Pal

Gö Lotsawa Shyönnu Pal (Tib. འགོས་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་དཔལ་, Wyl. 'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal) (1392-1481) - Author of the famous Blue Annals. He studied with more than sixty masters, including the pandita Vanaratna, the Fifth Karmapa and Tsongkhapa. His writings fill ten volumes. He is counted among the previous incarnations of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.

Further Reading

• G. Roerich, trans., The Blue Annals, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1979
• Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within: Go Lotsawa's Mahamudra Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhāga, Wisdom Publications, 2008
• Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, 'On the Composition and Printings of the Deb gter sngon po by ’Gos lo tsā ba gzhon nu dpal' in JIATS, volume 2.
• Leonard Van der Kuijp, 'The Names of 'Gos Lo tsā ba Gzhon nu dpal (1392-1481)', in Pandita and the Siddha: Tibetan Studies in Honour of E.Gene Smith edited by Ramon Prats, Amnye Machen Institute

External Links

• A Beautiful Garland of Udumbara Flowers—A Prayer to the Previous Incarnations of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
• TBRC Profile
• Biography at Treasury of Lives