🧘‍♂️ Je Tsongkhapa – The Great Reformer

• Name: Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419)

• Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ (Tsongkhapa)

• Known as: Lobsang Drakpa – founder of the Gelug school

• Role: Great scholar, yogi, and teacher; regarded as an emanation of Manjushri (wisdom), Avalokiteshvara (compassion), and Vajrapani (power)

• Famous Work: Lamrim Chenmo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment)

🌟 Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Tsongkhapa Set Practice)

• Purpose:

  • Strengthen guru devotion

  • Receive blessings of wisdom, compassion, and spiritual power

  • Accumulate merit and purify negativities

• Visualization:
  Visualize Tsongkhapa above your head, radiating light and blessings

• Mantra:
  Migtsema Mantra (very popular and powerful):
  Om Agni Manjushri Vimala Guru Dhi Vajradhara Sumati Kirti Svaha
  Or:
  Om Ah Ra Pa Tsa Na Dhi

• Symbols:

  • Yellow hat (symbol of Gelug tradition)

  • Often depicted with two disciples: Gyaltsab and Khedrup