Following the fall of the Tibetan empire and the ensuing "period of
fragmentation," the twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw tremendous
religious efflorescence in Tibet. Although the Tibetan scholars and
adepts of this period continued to draw from the texts and
practices of Indian Buddhism, they also began to craft distinctly
Tibetan intellectual and spiritual traditions. Hundreds of
important masters lived and worked during this time, some of whom
founded institutions that still exist today. Equally important were
the scholars who lived on the margins of institutionalized
Buddhism, teachers and meditators whose works, despite their great
creativity, have been largely forgotten.
Jose Cabezon offers a study of the life and most important extant
work of one such figure, Rog Bande Sherab, also known as Rogben
(1166-1244). Rogben studied under some of the greatest teachers of
his day. An itinerant scholar and yogi, he devoted his life to
collecting important textual cycles and meditation techniques.
Rogben's most important work, The Lamp of the Teachings, cuts
across the genres of history, doctrinal studies, and doxography. It
is one of the earliest philosophically robust explanations of the
"nine vehicle" system of the Ancient or Nyingma school of Tibetan
Buddhism. TheBuddha's Doctrine and the Nine Vehicles is the first
scholarly study of Rog Bande Sherab, a pivotal figure in both the
Pacification (Zhiche) and Ancient traditions of Tibet, and one of
the most original thinkers in Tibetan intellectual history."
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