Benchen monastery
Tibetan name |
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Wylie transliteration : ban chen dgon
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Other spellings: Benchen Gön
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Chinese name |
Simplified :
边 钦 寺
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Pinyin : Bianqin si
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The Benchen monastery ( Tib . : ban chen dgon ) or Penchen monastery ( pan chen dgon ) or Benchen Phüntshog Dargyeling ( ban chen phun tshogs dar rgyas gling ) is a monastery of the Karma Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan Kham cultural region . It is located in Baitang Township, Yushu City ( Tib . : yus hru'u ), Tibetan Yushu Autonomous District in northwest China's Qinghai Province .
The monastery was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty by the 4th Sanggye Nyenpa Rinpoche Geleg Gyatsho ( dge legs rgya mtsho ) at the current location. Its original location was on the hill of the Kyegu monastery ( skye rgu don grub gling ) of the Sakya school above the village of Gyêgu (Kyegu).
The most important lines of incarnation of the monastery include the lines of incarnation of the Sanggye Nyenpa Rinpoches ( sangs rgyas mnyan pa rin po che ), the Tenga Rinpoches ( bstan dga 'rin po che ) and the Chime Rinpoches ( ' chi med rin po che ).
The 13th Karmapa Düdul Dorje ( bdud 'dul rdo rje ; 1733–1797) died in this monastery. The 16th Karmapa and the 9th Penchen Lama were among others in the monastery. In its heyday it had 600 monks.
The monastery reopened in 1981. It was only slightly damaged in the severe Yushu earthquake in 2010 .
Other monasteries of this name
Kathmandu (Nepal)
A new monastery of this name ( Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling ) was established in Kathmandu , Nepal .
Allmuthen (Manderfeld, Belgium)
Its European seat is Benchen Phuntsok Ling in the German-speaking hamlet Allmuthen von Manderfeld in Belgium .
See also
- Dra'u ( gra'u )
- Shangpa-Kagyu
- Orgyen Thrinle Dorje
literature
- Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou 2003
Web links
- rywiki.tsadra.org: Benchen monastery - English
- karmapa.brainbooking.com: Official website of the Karmapa Foundation Europe - Benchen Phuntsok Ling
- rinpoche.org: Benchen Centers Worldwide
- maitreya.at: Biographies of the Sangye Nyenpa incarnations
References and footnotes
- ↑ cf. ban chen dgon - accessed April 23
- ↑ Zangzu da cidian , p. 63
- ↑ Chin. Bianqin si 边 钦 寺 u. a.
- ↑ Chinese Bianqin Pengcuo Dajie Leng 边 钦 彭措 达杰 楞; often written in Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling
- ↑ Chinese Batang xiang 巴塘 乡
- ↑ Tibetan : ཡུས་ ཧྲུའ ུ, Chinese 玉樹 縣 / 玉树 县 , Pinyin Yùshù xiàn ; Inscription after Schuh : Yüru´u
- ↑ Or in the usual western spelling: Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche; Tib. སངས་ རྒྱས་ མཉན་ པ་ རིན་ པོ་ ཆེ; Wyl. sangs rgyas mnyan pa rin po che . - The first representative of this series, Trashi Peljor ( bkra shis dpal 'byor ; 1445–1519) - cf. rywiki.tsadra.org: Sangye Nyenpa Tashi Paljor - was the teacher of the eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje ( mi bskyod rdo rje ; 1507–1554). - See their biographies in Gregor Verhufen: THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE EIGHTH KARMA-PA MI-BSKYOD RDO-RJE AND HIS TEACHER SANGS-RGYAS MNYAN-PA. A contribution to the history of the bKa'-brgyud-pa school of Tibetan Buddhism ( jamyang.de ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 1.8 MB) - accessed on April 23, 2011
- ↑ Kyegu Dondrub Ling
- ↑ cf. rigpawiki.org: Sangyé Nyenpa Incarnation Line , sangyenyenpa.com: A Warm Welcome to Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche's website .
- ↑ cf. rigpawiki.org Tenga Incarnation Line & rigpawiki.org: Tenga Rinpoche
- ↑ Their current representatives are the 10th Sanggye Nyenpa Rinpoche , the 3rd Tenga Rinpoche and the 4th Benchen Chime Rinpoche .
- ↑ Zangzu da cidian , p. 64.
- ↑ benchen.org ( memento of July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on April 23, 2011
- ↑ benchen.org - accessed June 2, 2014
- ↑ Chinese Zhawu 扎 武 or Zhawu buluo 扎 武 部落
Benchen monastery (alternative names of the lemma) |
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Bianqin si 边 钦 寺; Panchen monastery; Panchen Monastery; Banqing si 班 青 寺, Banqing si 班 庆 寺; ban chen dgon phun tshogs dar rgyas gling, Benchen monastery; Penchen Gompa; Penchen Monastery; Benchen Gompa; Benchen Phuntsog Dargyeling; Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling; Benchen Phüntshog Dargye Ling; Bianqing si 邊 倩 寺; Benchen Phüntshog Dargyeling; Bianqian si 边 倩 寺, Benchen monastery; Benchen Puntsok Dargyeling; Benchen Phuntsok Ling; Benchen Phuntsok Dargye Ling Monastery; Penchen Gön |
Coordinates: 32 ° 50 ′ 38 " N , 97 ° 8 ′ 46" E