Dege park slope
Dege Parkhang ( Tibetan སྡེ་ དགེ་ པར་ ཁང Wylie sde dge par khang ) is a famous, traditional printing house in Eastern Tibet that produced and stored printing blocks for block printing . The full name of the printing house is "Dege Parkhang Chödzö Chenmo" (Tib .: sde dge par khang chos mdzod chen mo ; "Dege printing house, great treasure of the Dharma "). Another important printing house in Eastern Tibet was the Pelpung Monastery printing house .
Location and age
Dege Parkhang belongs to the monastery Dege Gönchen Lhündrub Teng (Tib .: sde dge dgon chen lhun grub steng ) and is, as indicated in the name, in today's Dege district of the Kardze autonomous district . Dege Gönchen Lhündrub Teng was founded in the 15th century by the famous Thangtong Gyelpo (Tib .: thang stong rgyal po ; 1361–1485) and served until 1909 as the seat of the kings of Dege. The printing house was set up in the first half of the 18th century by King Tenpa Tshering (Tib .: bstan pa tshe ring ; 1678–1738). It consists of a multi-storey building that served in particular as a warehouse for a large number of printing blocks, of which prints could usually be made for a fee. Based on the print shop catalog it can be estimated that Dege Parkhang once housed between four and five hundred thousand printing blocks. Today the number of printing blocks is given as around 290,000.
Printed works
Dege Parkhang's offerings included religious text collections, collected works by important teachers of the Sakya School, works on Tibetan grammar and lexicography , historiographical texts such as biographies , works on the history of Buddhism and genealogies , works on poetics , astronomy , calendar calculations , logic and medicine , with which much of the genre of Tibetan literature was covered.
The Dege edition of the Kanjur (Tib. Bka '' gyur ; "translation of the words (of the Buddha)") and of the Tanjur (Tib. Bstan 'gyur ; "Translation of the textbooks") (see also Buddhist canon ) are among the best-known products the print shop.
Monument character
The Dege Parkhang printing company has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-183) since 1996 .
See also
literature
- Josef Kolmaš: Prague Collection of Tibetan Prints from Derge. Volume 3: Index of Titles (= Dissertationes Orientales 48). Book 1 and Book 2. Oriental Institute, Prague 1996, ISBN 80-85425-21-1 .
- Khams phyogs dkar mdzes khul gyi sde so so'i to rgyus gsal bar bzad ba nang bstan gals ba'i me long zhes bya ba bzhugs (A clear and exhaustive mirror of the history of the monasteries in Dkar mdzes county of Khams). Beijing: China Tibetology Culture Research Center 1995
Web links
- The listing of block prints
- Prague Collection of Tibetan Prints from Derge (PDF; 88 kB)
- Official website - Chinese / English
- Tibetan Sutra Printing House Becomes Tourist Attraction - English
- Two Early Sources for the History of the House of sDe-dge (PDF; 220 kB)
Coordinates: 31 ° 48 ′ 22.6 " N , 98 ° 34 ′ 51.6" E