Talk:Gö Lotsawa Zhönnu-pel

Not the same as 'gos khug pa lhas btsas!
The current version of this article has:

Please! This is mixing two entirely different people together - the 11th century 'gos khug pa lhas btsas, (TBRC P3458) a student of Atisha who was famously critical of the Nyingma tradition; and Gö Lotsawa ('gos lo ts'a ba gzhon nu dpal) ( b. 1392 d. 1481 ) TBRC P318 the famous author of the Blue Annals who was a student of the fifth Karmapa and Tsongkhapa - and a teacher if the 6th Karmapa

Gö Lotsawa's Blue Annals is cited as one of the sources for this article - and since Gö Lotsawa writes about the much earlier Gö Khugpa in that book, the mistake should have been obvious to anyone who had read it. Unfortunately this kind of sloppiness seems to plague the Tibetan Buddhism related articles on Wikipedia.

As it is, the article is currently in a real mess with statements about two entirely different figures mixed together. This needs to be untangled.

Chris Fynn (talk) 04:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Dear Chris: I have just had a brief look at your notes and the article on Gö Lotsawa and it does look like you are right that I made a serious error last year when I combined information on the two men. I don't know yet how this happened, but the main thing is to correct the errors. I will do my best to sort the whole mess out over the next couple of days and will let you know when I have completed it so you can check the corrections or make any other suggestions you might have. So sorry for all the confusion. Oh, and thanks for picking up on the error - it will be good to get it all corrected! Sincerely, John Hill (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Dear Chris: I have started on the rewrite of this article and also created a new one for Gö Khugpa. Please do have a look at them both - they are just beginnings - and please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. Cheers and thanks, John Hill (talk) 17:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)