Thradrug

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཁྲ་ འབྲུག་ དགོན་ པ །
Wylie transliteration : khra 'brug dgon pa
Official transcription of the PRCh : Changzhug
THDL transcription : Tradruk
Other spellings: Trandruk, Trangdruk, Tradrug, Trandrug, Trangdrug
Chinese name
Traditional : 昌珠寺
Simplified : 昌珠寺
Pinyin : Chāngzhū Sì

Thradrug ( Tibetan : ཁྲ་ འབྲུག་ དགོན་ པ, transcription after Wylie : khra 'brug dgon pa ; transcription of the PRCh : Changzhug ) is a monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nêdong district (Tib .: sne gdong rdzong / Nǎidōng Xiàn乃东县) of the Shannan administrative district in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China , around seven kilometers south of the district capital Zêtang (Tib .: rtsed thang / Zédàng泽当).

Founding legends

Thradrug is one of the oldest Buddhist monasteries in Tibet. It is said to have been built in the 7th century under Songtsen Gampo as one of a total of twelve geomantic ( Feng Shui ) temples called "Thadül" (tib .: mtha '' dul ) and "Yangdül" (tib .: yang 'dul ) whom the giant demon Sinmo (Tib .: srin mo ) should be tamed. Thradrug stood here on the left shoulder Sinmos, Katsel (tib .: ka rtsal also bka 'tshal or bka' rtsal ) at Gyama (tib .: rgya ma / Jiǎmǎ甲 马) in Meldro Gonkar Dzong ( sometimes gro gong dkar rdzong / Mòzhúgōngkǎ Xiàn墨竹 工 卡 县) on her right shoulder and the Jokhang in Lhasa on her heart. According to another legend, on the site of the monastery there was originally a large lake in which a five-headed dragon lived. Songtsen Gampo was able to use meditation to summon a giant hawk , which defeated the dragon and emptied the lake so that the temple could be built there. The name of the temple is said to go back to this legend: in Tibetan khra means "falcon" and 'brug "thunder dragon".

history

Under the rule of King Thrisong Detsen (ruled approx. 755–797) and Mune Tsenpo (Tib .: mu ne btsan po ; ruled approx. 797–798), the Thradrug was considered one of the three “royal monasteries”.

During the persecution of Buddhism under Langdarma (Tib .: glang is ma ; reg approx 841-846.) As well as during the Mongol invasion from the Dzungaria (North Xinjiang ) in the 16th century, the monastery was severely damaged.

In 1351 Thradrug was renovated and expanded. Under the 5th Dalai Lama (ruled 1642–1682) the monastery was given a golden roof and under the 7th Dalai Lama (ruled 1751–1757) further expansion work took place. At the end of the 18th century, Thradrug is said to have had 21 temples. Some of the buildings were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution . In the 80s the monastery was renovated and inaugurated again in 1988. Today the plant has an area of ​​4667 square meters. The monastery is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .

Architecture and handicrafts

The center of the temple is the innermost chapel, which is said to go back to the temple originally built by Songtsen Gampo and to have contained stone Buddha statues and a Tara statue. These were later replaced by ceramic figures, which are said to contain fragments of the original statues.

The most important treasure Thradrugs is embroidered with thousands of pearls Tangka , the Princess Wen Cheng is said to have made by hand. He represents Wen Cheng as White Tara . The Tangka is kept in the central chapel on the upper floor. It is one of only three tangkas that Wen Cheng is said to have made. The other two are in the reliquary tupa of the 5th Dalai Lama in the Potala in Lhasa and in Samzhubzê . In the same room there is also a "talking statue" depicting Padmasambhava at the age of eight.

Thradrug once had an important bell, but it is no longer in the monastery.

The main building is surrounded by several smaller shrines.

Rituals

In June ritual dances take place in Thradrug, known as Metog Chöpa (Tib .: me tog mchod pa ; "flower offering").

gallery

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  Reconstruction in 2014

See also

• Thadül Yangdül

literature

• Guntram Hazod, Per K. Sørensen, Gyalbo Tsering: Thundering Falcon. An Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-'brug, Tibet's First Buddhist Temple (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2005), ISBN 3-7001-3495-9 .
• ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho ངག་ དབང་ བློ་ བཟང་ རྒྱ་ མཚོ །: bod kyi deb ther dpyid kyi rgyal mo'i glu dbyangs བོད་ ཀྱི་ དེབ་ཐེར་ དཔྱིད་ ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ མོའ ི་ གླུ་ དབྱངས །, Chapter 6.

Web links

• Tradrug (British Photography in Central Tibet, 1920–1950; Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / British Museum ; in English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家 测绘 局 地名 研究所: Xīzàng dìmíng西藏 地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང ། ( Tibetan place names ; Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国 藏 学 出版社 1995), ISBN 7-80057-284-6 , pp. 70f.
2. ↑ Alex McKay: The History of Tibet (RoutledgeCourzon 2003), ISBN 0-7007-1508-8 , pp. 340 f.
   Guntram Hazod: The Royal Residence Pho brang byams pa mi 'gyur gling and the Story of Srong btsan sgam po's Birth in Rgya ma. In: Henk Blezer (Ed.): Tibet, Past and Present (Brill 002), ISBN 90-04 -12775-5 ; P. 41f.
   see. Michael Aris: Bhutan. The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom (Warminister, Aris and Phillips 1979), ISBN 0-85668-199-7 , p. 3ff.
3. ↑ Jeremy Atiyah, David Leffmann, Simon Lewis: China (Dumont 2004), ISBN 3-7701-6150-5 , p. 1039.
4. ^ Gyurme Dorje: Tibet Handbook (Footprint ²1999), ISBN 1-900949-33-4 , p. 192.
5. ↑ China's Tibet: Facts and Figures 2005 - Monument Protection ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Beijing Rundschau ) 
6. ^ Hugh Edward Richardson: A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions (Royal Asiatic Society 1985), ISBN 0-947593-00-4 , pp. 82f.

Thradrug (alternative names of the lemma)
khra brug gtsug lay khang; Thradrug Tsuglagkhang

Coordinates: 29 ° 11 ′ 38 ″  N , 91 ° 46 ′ 19 ″  E