Buton Rinchen Drub

Buton Rinchen Drub
A 14th-century wall painting depiction of abbot Buton Rinchen (left) and his successor
Tibetan name
Tibetan བུ་སྟོན་རིན་ཆེན་གྲུབ་
Transcriptions
Wyliebu ston rin chen grub
THLButön Rinchen Drup
Tibetan PinyinPudoin Rinqênzhub
Lhasa IPApʰutø̃ rĩtɕʰẽtʂup
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese布敦仁欽竹
Simplified Chinese布敦仁钦竹
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBùdūn Rénqīngzhú

Butön Rinchen Drup (Tibetan: བུ་སྟོན་རིན་ཆེན་གྲུབ་, Wylie: bu ston rin chen grub), (1290–1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a 14th-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader. Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsang dynasty during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition. Butön was not merely a capable administrator but he is remembered to this very day as a prodigious scholar and writer and is Tibet's most celebrated historian.