Shardza tashi gyaltsen biography of william hill
Shardza tashi gyaltsen biography of william hill
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Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen
Tibetan buddhist scholar
Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen | |
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Born | 1859 |
Died | 1933/1935 |
Religion | Bon |
Based in | Tibet |
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Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (Tibetan: ཤར་རྫ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: shar rdza bkra shis rgyal mtshan) (1859–1933[1] or 1935[2]) was a great Dzogchen master of the Bon tradition of Tibet who took not only Bon disciples, but gathered students from all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.[3]
Biography
Shardza was born in 1859 in Kham.[4] He took ordination at age 30.
He wrote philosophical works and became an influential Bon scholar.[4]
Shardza has been cited as a vegetarian as he refused to eat the meat of any animal that was slaughtered.[5] However, Shardza would eat meat from animals that died naturally from accidents or attacked by wolves as the consumer has no involvement in the death of the animal.[4