Dege Gönchen

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
སྡེ་ དགེ་ དགོན་ ཆེན
Wylie transliteration :
sde dge dgon chen
Other spellings:
Dege Gönchen
Chinese name
Simplified :
更 庆 寺
Pinyin :
Gengqing si

Dege Gönchen or Gönchen Monastery ( Tib . : dgon chen dgon ) is a monastery belonging to the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism in the Dege / Derge ( sde dge ) region of the eastern Tibetan cultural region of Kham . It is located near the eastern bank of the Jinsha Jiang (Yangtze River / Dri Chu). It used to be a Nyingmapa monastery and later became a Sakyapa monastery. It also served as the seat of the kings of Dege ( sde dge thu'u si ).

The monastery is located in the east of today's Dêgê (Dege) district of the Garzê (Kardze) autonomous district . Derge Monastery was the cultural center of eastern Kham.

The monastery was founded in 1448, when it was founded by the first Derge king ( Tusi ) Bothar Trashi Sengge ( bo thar bkra shis seng ge ) and the famous monk , Thangtong Gyelpo , who is well known for his iron chain bridge constructions ( thang stong rgyal po ; 1361–1485), founded. It has seven subsidiary monasteries, in its heyday it had reached more than 700 monks.

The complex of the monastery consists of four parts: main hall (Dukhang), Balenglong (八 冷 隆), Tangyel Lhakhang (Thangtong Gyelpo Chapel) and printing shop (see Dege Parkhang ).

Monastery printing

Attached to the monastery is a famous printing house called Dege Parkhang , which was set up in the first half of the 18th century by the Derge King Tenpa Tshering ( bstan pa tshe ring ; 1678–1738). Famous editions of the Kanjur (tib. Bka '' gyur ; "translation of the words (of the Buddha)") and the Tanjur (tib. Bstan 'gyur ; "translation of the textbooks") (see also Buddhist canon ) were printed in Derge Monastery , important works of Tibetan medicine and other scriptures.

Cultural Revolution and Monument

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the monastery suffered severe damage.

The Dege Parkhang printing company has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-183) since 1996 .

literature

  • Josef Kolmas: A genealogy of the Kings of Derge, Sde-dgei rgyal rabs. Tibetan text edited with historical introduction. (Dissertationes orientales, vol. 12). Prague 1968.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Chinese Gengqing si 更 庆 寺
  2. ↑ Thangtong Gyelpo is considered to be a representative of the Shangpa Kagyü school ( Tib . : shangs pa bka 'brgyud ) of the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ), but is also associated with other schools, Nyingmapa and Sakyapa .
  3. ↑ Dege tusi 德格 土司; see. Tusi (Tib. ཐུའ ུ་ སི; Wyl. Thu'u si )
  4. ↑ Chinese Puta Zhaxi Shenge 埔 塔 • 扎西 申 格
  5. ↑ Wolf Kahlen: Tibet's Leonardo. In: VDI-Nachrichten. Düsseldorf 1990.
  6. ↑ Zangzu da cidian. P. 264.
  7. ↑ 土司 登巴泽 仁 / 德格 土司 兼 寺 主 的 却 吉登 巴泽 仁 熟
Dege Gönchen (alternative names of the lemma)
sde dge dgon chen dgon pa; dgon chen dgon; Dege Gönchen; sDe-dge dgon-chen; Derge Lhundrupteng; sde dge lhun grub stengs; Gengqing Monastery; 更 庆 寺, Gengqing si; Dege Gönchen; Dege Gengqin si 德格 更 钦 寺; sde dge dgon chen; Dege Gönchen; Lunzhu Ding 伦 珠 顶; lhun grub steng; Lhündrub Teng, Dege Gönchen; སྡེ་ དགེ་ དགོན་ ཆེན; sde dge dgon chen; degé treat; Gonchen Monastery, Derge Gonchen Monastery; Dege Gönchen Lhündrub Teng (Tib .: sde dge dgon chen lhun grub steng ); Derge Gonchen Monastery Dege Gengging si; Lundrub Teng (Dege Gonchen); Dege Lhundrub Teng (sde dge lhun grub steng); Dege Gompa; 德格伦 珠 顶; Dege Gönchen Lhündrub Teng (Tib .: sde dge dgon chen lhun grub steng); lHun-grub-stengs monastery; Дерге Лхундруптенг (sde dge lhun grub stengs), Dege Lhundrub Teng (sde dge lhun grub steng); 当 限 指 德格 重 寺 吉祥 天成 上 经 院; sDe dge dgon chen dpal lhun grub steng gi chos grva; Dege Gengqing si; 德格 更 庆 寺; 德格 更 庆 • 吉祥 天成 上 经 院; Dege Lunzhu ding 德格伦 珠 顶; Gönchen Gön

Coordinates: 31 ° 48 ′ 20.2 "  N , 98 ° 35 ′ 16.4"  E