Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen

Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859–1933 or 1935 ) was a great Dzogchen master of the Bon tradition of Tibet who took not only Bon disciples, but gathered students from all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

Biography

Shardza was born in 1859 in Kham. He took ordination at age 30. He wrote philosophical works and became an influential Bon scholar. However, Shardza would eat meat from animals that died naturally from accidents or attacked by wolves as the consumer has no involvement in the death of the animal.

Literary works 'The Self-Dawning of the Three Bodies' byang zab nam mkha' mdzod chen las snyan rgyud rtsa rlung 'phrul 'khor (a Commentary on Trul Khor)