Śākya Chokden
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Shakya Chokden (Wyl. shAkya mchog ldan) (1428-1507) - Born in the Earth Monkey year of the seventh calendrical cycle, he studied with Rongtön Sheja Kunrig and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo.
He espoused a form of Shentong view.
Further Reading
- Komarovski, Yaroslav. Echoes of empty luminosity: Reevaluation and unique interpretation of Yogacara and Nihsvabhavavada Madhyamaka by the fifteenth century Tibetan thinker Sakya mchog ldan, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia (2007).
- Komarovski, Yaroslav. Visions of Unity:
The Golden Pandita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogacara and Madhyamaka, SUNY 2011
- Shakya Chokden, Three Texts on Madhyamaka, trans. Komarovski Iaroslav, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2002
