• Name often spelled U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal. He appears as translator in several Kanjur and Tanjur colophons. He was a 'Brug pa Bka' brgyud pa, but also a very important lineage holder for the Karma pa school, and famous for his special teachings related to the Kālacakra Tantra: Rdo rje gsum gyi bsnyen sgrub.
• Stearns, Luminous Lives, pp. 4-5, 8.
• Stearns, Hermit, p. 21.
• Disciple of Gtsang pa Rgya ras pa. See Miller, Lineage, p. 31.
• Drepung Catalog, pp. 719-720, 1068-1072 lists a number of his works.
• Biography by Mdo stod pa Gzhon nu ye shes, Rje u rgyan pa'i rnam thar, a manuscript in 13 folios. Drepung Catalog, p. 1565.
• Biography by Bsod snyoms pa Bsod nams 'od zer, in 125 folios, listed in Drepung Catalog, p. 1527.
• Chos kyi rgyal po o rgyan pa'i rnam thar gsang ba. Manuscript in 4 folios. Drepung Catalog, p. 1564.
• Dungkar Rinpoche's dictionary, pp. 564-565.
• PPTK, pp. 76-77, has a listing of titles from a one-volume manuscript of his works, along with a brief biographical sketch.
• Roberto Vitali, Grub chen U rgyan pa and the Mongols of China. Paper read at the conference in Delhi (Nov. 2009), forthcomng.
• Thuken, p. 132.

Bibliography:

• Chu bo rabs kyi phreng ba.
  • Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal (1230-1309), Part Two: For Emperor Qubilai? His Garland of Tales about Rivers, contained in: Christoph Cüppers, ed., The Relationship between Religion and State (chos srid zung 'brel) in Traditional Tibet, Lumbini International Research Institute (Lumbini 2004), pp. 299-339.
• Dbu ma'i dogs gcod zhus lan.
  • PPTK, p. 76.
• Dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i sgrub thabs.
  • Drepung Catalog, p. 320.
• Legs bshad tshig gi sgron me nyes skyon kun nas 'joms pa'i rab byed
  • Drepung Catalog, p. 377.
• O ḍi ya na'i bsnyen sgrub kyi lo rgyus rin chen phreng ba.
  • PPTK, p. 76.
• O rgyan pa sde bdun du thub pa'i sku gdung la bstod pa.
  • A 1-folio manuscript listed in Drepung Catalog, p. 1564.
• O rgyan sprul pa'i zhing gi lam yig rin chen phreng ba.
  • PPTK, p. 76.
• Ra bcud kyi bcud len sha ba ri pa nas u rgyan pa la brgyud pa.
  • Source: TBRC. This work is 30 folios in length.
• Rin chen sgron me.
  • Drepung Catalog, p. 1692.
• Rin chen shel gyi 'phreng ba.
  • Drepung Catalog, p. 1692.