Buton Rinchen Drub

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
བུ་ སྟོན་ རིན་ ཆེན་ འགྲུབ་
Wylie transliteration :
bu ston rin chen grub
Pronunciation in IPA :
[ pʰutø̃ rĩtɕʰẽʈʂup ]
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Pudoin Rinqênzhub
THDL transcription :
Buton Rinchendrup
Other spellings:
Butön Rinchendrup,
Budon Rinchendub,
Purdain Rinqenzhub
Chinese name
Traditional :
布敦仁欽 竹
Simplified :
布敦仁钦 竹
Pinyin :
Bùdūn Rénqīngzhú
Butön Rinchen Drub (left) and his successor

Butön Rinchen Drub (* 1290 ; † 1364 ) was the eleventh abbot of the Shalu monastery near Xigazê . He was one of the eminent Buddhist scholars of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism .

Life's work

Butön Rinchen Drub founded the Shalu Riphug hermitage on the mountain behind the monastery in 1320, where yoga was taught, specializing in trance states and the generation of inner heat ( tummo ), one of the six yogas of Naropa . The Shalu Monastery, which he directed, was a center for Sanskrit translations and Sanskrit manuscripts.

Butön Rinchen Drub cataloged thousands of religious and philosophical writings. He was directly involved in the compilation of the Tibetan canon, namely the Kanjur (tib .: bka '' gyur ) and the Tanjur (tib .: bstan 'gyur ), and is the author of an important work on the history of Buddhism in India and Tibet (see main article Chronicle of the Buton ).

He also wrote several works on astronomy and calendar calculation. Particularly noteworthy is the first major written in prose commentary work for Kalacakra -Astronomie and calendar calculations, which is entitled "textbook on the calculations of the Kalachakra, something that pleased the scholars" (Tib .: dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i rtsis kyi bstan bcos mkhas pa rnams dga 'bar byed pa ) wears. With this work we have the first previously known treatise on astronomy and calendar calculation, which does not have the mere form of a practical arithmetic book, but tries on a large scale to explain the meaning of the arithmetic operations to be carried out. In this respect, Butön's work is groundbreaking for the systematic development of Tibetan astronomy and the Tibetan calendar calculation .

Literary legacy

The 13th Dalai Lama issued a block print edition of the collected works (Tib .: gsung 'bum ) of Butön Rinchen Drub and his most important student, Dratshepa Rinchen Namgyel (Tib .: sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal ; 1318-1388) , commissioned in 26 volumes. The printing blocks for this edition were made between 1917 and 1919.

See also

literature

  • E. Obermiller : History of Buddhism (Chos-ḥbyung) by Bu-ston . Heidelberg, Otto Harrassowitz, 1931–1932.
  • János Szerb : Bu ston's History of Buddhism in Tibet . Contributions to the cultural and intellectual history of Asia 5, Vienna 1990.
  • David Seyfort Ruegg: The Life of Bu ston Rin po che. With the Tibetan Text of the Bu ston rNam thar . Roma, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1966.
  • Helmut Eimer: The Bu ston's Tantra catalog in comparison with the Tantra section of the Tibetan Kanjur . Study, text edition, concordances and indices (Bonn 1989).
  • Dieter Schuh: Studies on the history of the Tibetan calendar calculation . Wiesbaden 1973.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Also known with his titles as Butön Thamce Khyenpa (tib .: bu ston thams cad mkhyen pa) and Butön Kache (tib .: bu ston kha che) .
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tbrc.org
  3. ↑ bu ston rin chen grub dang sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal.
Butön Rinchen Drub (alternative names of the lemma)
khro phu pa bu ston rin chen grub; Throphupa Buton Rinchen Drub; Budun Renqin Zhu; 布顿 • 仁钦 竹
personal data
SURNAME Buton Rinchen Drub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pudoin rinqênzhub; Pudoin Tamjai Kyênba; Pudoin Kaqê
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan abbot of Xalu Monastery and Buddhist scholar of the Sagya School
DATE OF BIRTH 1290
DATE OF DEATH 1364