Thokme Sangpo

Trained and ordained in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, Thokme Sangpo (1295–1369) was also an important custodian and transmitter of the instructions of the Kadam school, with his writings focusing on the Indian treatises on the bodhisattva ideal and on the Tibetan tradition of mind training (lojong). He is said to have composed 115 works, he served as abbot of Bodong E Monastery for nine years, and his masters included Buton, and he trained figures such as Rendawa. Much of his later life was spent in seclusion.