Three wise men from Tibet

The so-called Three Wise Men from Tibet ( Tibetan བོད་ ཀྱི་ མཁས་པ་ མི་ གསུམ ། Wylie bod kyi mkhas pa mi gsum ) are a group of three well-known monks of Tibetan Buddhism who - to avoid the persecution by King Langdarma (r. 836–842 or 901–907) - had fled from “Central Tibet” to the empire of Tsongkha in Amdo (Qinghai), where they continued the Mulasarvastivada line of monastic ordination. The monks were Mar Shakyamuni , Yo Geyung and Tsang Rabsal .

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“As King Glang dar ma in the 9th century destroyed the Buddhist teaching, sTod lung pa Mar Sakya mu ne, Bo dong pa gYo dGe 'byung and gTsang Rab gsal went to Dan thig in Amdo and led there together with the two Chinese monks (Hva San) Kevan and Gyivan according to the special regulation for the remote regions, only five of them complete the full ordination for the famous Bla chen dGongs pa rab gsal (952-1035). In the year 978 Bla chen dGongs pa rab gsal in turn directed five for Klu mes Tshul khrims shes rab (born 10th century), Lo ston rDo rje dbang phyugs (born 10th century) and others, a total of ten novices gTsang and five from dBus, full ordination to Bhiktsu. This line then spread "successively" back to dBus and gTsang. "

literature

• George N. Roerich: The blue annals
• Kal Sang Gyal: Religions in Tibet . 2004, ISBN 7-5085-0437-2 (on Google Books )

See also

• Laughing Gongpa Rabsel ( bla chen dgong pa rab gsal )
• Lume Tshälthrim Sherab ( klu mes tshul khrims shes rab )
• Dentig Monastery ( dan tig dgon pa )

Web links

• StudyBuddhism.com: The origin of the yellow hat worn by the monks of the Gelug tradition
• StudyBuddhism.com: The Tibetan History - An Overview. 2: The struggle for religious survival after the fall of the Tibetan Empire
• Xining Dafo si (Xining Big Buddha Temple) - Chinese

References and comments

1. ↑ Chinese Xizang san xianzhe 西藏 三 贤哲 ; russ. Три учёных из Тибета, engl. The Three Learned Men of Tibet
2. ↑ Tib. དམར་ ཤ་ ཀྱ་ མུ་ ནེ dmar sha kya mu ne ; Chinese 玛 • 释迦牟尼
3. ↑ Tib. གཡོ་ དགེ་ འབྱུང g.Yo dGe 'byung ; Chinese 尧 • 格 迥
4. ↑ Tib. གཊསང་ ཪབ་ གསལ gTsang Rab gsal ; Chinese 藏 • 饶 赛
5. ↑ Bhiksuni Jampa Taedroen (Carola Roloff): " Revival of the Bhiksuni Vows in Tibetan Buddhism - Current Developments ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. (PDF; 1.7 MB) "(buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de), p. 148 f. (cf. Kal Sang Gyal, p. 64 ff.)