Rinchen Zangpo Quotes

Rinchen Zangpo was a Tibetan translator and Buddhist scholar of the late tenth and eleventh centuries, the most important figure of the so-called Later Diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet, who, sponsored by the kings of Guge in western Tibet, traveled three times to India and brought back to Tibet the Sanskrit texts and tantric instructions that became the foundation of the new tantric schools. His many translations, his commissioning of monasteries, and his patient supervision of the translation workshops of the Guge kingdom set the philological standards by which the Tibetan Buddhist canon was eventually fixed. The quotes below are attributed to Rinchen Zangpo, organized by topic.