བནྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོན་ཏན། | Glossary of Terms

བནྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོན་ཏན།

ban+de chen po yon tan

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grand monk Yönten

The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print

grand monk Yönten

བནྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོན་ཏན།

ban+de chen po yon tan

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Also known as Drenka Palkyi Yönten (bran ka dpal gyi yon tan, ninth century), he was the first to hold the position of grand monk (ban de chen po), a title given to the highest-ranking monks in the imperial court.

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