Gtsang-smyon He-ru-ka, 1452-1507

found: Rnal ʼbyor gyi dbaṅ phyug chen po Mi-la-ras-paʼi rnam mgur, 1981:colophon (Ju-pi-chien-chin)

found: RLIN WAWC94B9649(hdg.: Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka, 1452-1507; author of Ma-erh-pa i shih chuan; transcription in authorship area as: Chʻa-tʻung-chieh-pu and Khrag-ʼthuṅ-rgyal-po)

found: Chos kyi rgyal po Dri-med-kun-ldan gyi mdzad tshul ... 1993:t.p. (Rnal-ʼbyor-ba Rus-paʼi-rgyan-can)

found: Moksha-sarvajña mārga-pradarśaka sadyogīśvara Bhaṭṭāraka Mi-Lā ras-pā kā jīvana-vr̥ttānta, 2003:t.p.(Caṅ-ñon He-ru-ka)

found: Crazy for wisdom, 2012:CIP galley (Tsangnyon Heruka (1452-1507) was known neither as the Madman of Tsang (Tsangnyon) nor as Heruka until his early twenties; other names, the most common being the name he received when he was ordained, Sangye Gyaltsen)

found: Gtsang-smyon He-ru-ka phyogs thams cad las rnam par rgyal baʼi rnam thar rdo rje theg paʼi gsal byed nyi maʼi snying po bzhugs so, 2016 loʼi zla 11:title page (Gtsang-smyon He-ru-ka)

found: Treasury of lives (website) viewed on August 11, 2020(Tsangnyon Heruka (gtsang smyon heruka) born 1452; died 1507; born in family of the Nyang (myang/nyang) clan a village called Kharkha (mkhar kha) in Tsang (gtsang); the great preceptor Kunga Sanggye (kun dgaʼ sangs rgyas) bestowed the novice monkʹs vows on him and he received the ordination name Sanggye Gyeltsen (sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan); Sharawa gave Tsangnyon a new name, Chokyi Drakpa (chos kyi grags pa); the twenty-one-year-old Tsangnyon left his monastery and became a wandering yogin with like the siddhas; Tsangnyon practiced and disseminated the core teachings of the Kagyu tradition; He was known for his expertise and accomplishment in the Six Dharmas of Nāropa (nāro chos drug), the Four Letter Mahāmudrā (phyag chen yi ge bzhi pa) and the esoteric Aural Transmissions (snyan brgyud) that had been transmitted by Milarepa's closest disciples) - https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tsangnyon-Heruka/6856