📿 Tsongkhapa

Tsongkhapa - Founder of Gelug School

Great Tibetan Buddhist teacher (1357-1419) and founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Considered an emanation of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom.

🔗 Related Across the Mythos

Archetype
📿 ENLIGHTENED TEACHER / DHARMA MASTER

Tsongkhapa embodies the Enlightened Teacher archetype - a reformer who revitalized tradition through scholarship, discipline, and direct realization.

See parallels: Confucius, Shankara, Moses, Zoroaster →
Cross-Cultural Parallels
🕉️ Adi Shankara → Great reformer and philosopher ☯️ Confucius → Sage who systematized tradition
Within Buddhist Tradition
📜 Manjushri → Bodhisattva he emanated from 🙏 Dalai Lama → Gelug lineage holder ☸️ Buddhist Cosmology → Worldview context