Festival of the release of captured animals

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : tshe thar shower
Chinese name
Simplified : 放生节
Pinyin : Fangsheng jie

The festival of the release of captured animals , the ritual release of birds, fish, cattle, horses, sheep, goats and the like. a. ( Tib. tshe thar ), is a traditional festival celebrated in Tibetan Buddhism . It is in many Tibetan areas every year on January 8 after the Tibetan calendar in the time of Monlam -Festes shortly after the Tibetan New Year ( Losar celebration), particularly in the monastery of Labrang in circles Xiahe of Autonomous Prefecture of Gannan Tibetan province Gansu , where between several hundred to over a thousand animals are released into the wild.

This type of release is generally regarded as a merit in Buddhism . In the old Daoist work Liezi it is also said that whoever liberates living beings on New Year's Day shows his goodness ( ēn ).

literature

Kathy Wesley: " The Practice of Releasing Lives (PDF; 40 kB)" - kagyu.org
Jens-Uwe Hartmann: " Active non-violence: The ritual liberation of animals (PDF; 1.4 MB)" - buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de
David Holler: " The Ritual of Freeing Lives "

Movie

Tse-Tar journey to free life (I) , (II) - youtube.com

Web links

Saving the Lives of Animals - English
The Buddhist Practice of Releasing Lives to Freedom (Dr. Yutang Lin) - English

Chinese web links

Fangsheng jie ; Gannan Zhengyue chuba Fangsheng jie ; Paipai qu - Zangzu Fangsheng jie - short film

References and footnotes

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↑ Chinese Text Project : Liezi , Shuofu 29 (= Wilhelm VIII.27)

[1] .tibet.cn ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 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. : Fangsheng jie (found on Nov. 7, 2009); see also tianya.cn ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Gannan Zhengyue chuba Fangsheng jie (photos) @1@ 2@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www5.tianya.cn

[2] Chinese Text Project : Liezi , Shuofu 29 (= Wilhelm VIII.27)