Fire Dragon Year Prayer Meeting

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : me 'brug chos' khor
Chinese name
Simplified : 丙辰 法 会
Pinyin : Bingchen fahui

Red Temple of Thoding Monastery in Tsada (Ngari)

The prayer meeting of the Fire Dragon year ( Tib. Me 'brug chos' khor ; Chin. Bingchen fahui 丙辰 法 engl; Eng. Fire Dragon chos' khor; Prayer Meeting in the Fire-Dragon year, etc.) was a famous Buddhist council in Tibetan history. It was held in 1076 in the religious center of the Guge Empire: the Thoding ( mtho lding ) Monastery in Zanda (Tsada), Ngari, under the Guge King Tsede ( T. rtse lde ). Famous monks from India and from the Tibetan regions of Kham , Tsang and Ü took part.

"After this prayer meeting, the monasteries shot up like mushrooms everywhere."

See also

• Ngog Lotsawa
• Kadam tradition

Web links

• History of Ngari
• Huolong nian fahui - Chinese
• Xizang fojiao shi shang de san ci da fahui - Chinese

Footnotes

1. ↑ Chinese Huolong nian fahui 火龙 年 法 会
2. ↑ bjreview.cn: China's Tibet: Facts and Figures 2005: The Tibetan Monasteries - accessed March 25, 2011
3. ↑ The "Three Great Prayer Meetings in the History of Tibetan Buddhism" are the Fire Dragon Year Prayer Meeting , Chumig Chökhor and Monlam Chenmo .