Künga Döndrub

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཀུན་ དགའ་ དོན་ གྲུབ
Wylie transliteration : kun dga 'don grub

Gyuchen Künga Döndrub ( Tib . Rgyud chen kun dga 'don grub ; born 1419 ; d. 1486 ) was a famous tantric masters from the Gelug -Schulrichtung of Tibetan Buddhism . In 1474 he founded the Lower Tantra College (Gyütö).

He was initially a monk of the Narthang monastery . He was a student of Gyü Sherab Sengge ( shes rab seng ge ; 1382-1445) and Gendün Drub .

In 1474, when he was not elected successor to the abbot , he left the Gyumen Monastery and founded the Jampel-Ling Monastery of the Upper Ü (T. Ütö Jampel-Ling; Wyl. Dbus stod 'Jam dpal gling ) in Maizhokunggar (Meldro Gongkar) grwa tshang ), better known under the name Gyütö ( rgyud stod ), where one followed his tantra textbooks.

See also

• Upper Tantra College

literature

• Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou : Gansu renmin chubanshe 2003

Web links

• StudyBuddhism.com: An overview of the Gelug monastic training system
• StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of Gyumen and Gyütö, the Lower and Upper Tantra College
• StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of Ganden Monastery
• StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of Labrang Monastery
• chinabaike.com: 纳 塘 巴 • 协 饶 僧格 《土 观 宗派 源流》
• tbrc.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A county in the prefecture-level city of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region
2. ↑ The Gelug monastic training system at a glance (Tzenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II, translated and compiled by Alexander Berzin, September 2003, translation into German: Tara Dorn)

Künga Döndrub (alternative names of the lemma)
Gyuchen Kunga-dondrub, rGyud-chen Kun-dga 'don-grub, Gongga Dunzhu 贡噶 顿珠 Kun dga' don grub, Juqin Gongga Dunzhu 举 钦 • 贡噶 顿珠, Gunga Tunzhu 衮 噶 顿珠; Kunga Döndrup; kun dga 'don grub; rje btsun kun dga 'don grub; Jetsün Künga Döndrub; rje kun dga 'don grub; Je Künga Döndrub; Jie Gongga Dunzhu 杰 · 贡噶 顿珠; 杰 · 贡嘎 顿珠; 杰 尊 贡噶 顿珠