Jamyang Chöje

Jamyang Chöje ( Tib . : 'jam dbyangs chos rje ;) (* 1379 ; † 1449 ) or Jamyang Chöje Trashi Pelden ( jam dbyangs chos rje bkra shis dpal ldan ) or with its original name Trashi Pelden ( bkra shis dpal ldan ) an important disciple of Tsongkhapa , the founder of the Gelug order. In 1416 he founded Drepung Monastery , the second Gelugpa monastery after Ganden ( dga ldan ).

Life

Jamyang Chöje was born in the Samye area (in what is now Chanang County in Tibet). As a teenager he went to the Tsethang monastery of the Phagdru Kagyu branch of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and became a monk. He later became a student of Gelugpa founder Tsongkhapa. Je Tsongkhapa gave him a treasure clam shell recovered from the earth, which is said to have been buried behind Ganden on the Gokpari hill of Maudgalyayana and prophesied that the institution would become very famous.

In 1416, Namkha Sangpo , the Dzongpön (district governor) of Ne'u Dzong , made a generous donation and, with the help of the noble (Chinese) Lang ga sang 朗嘎桑 of the Lang ( Rlangs / Glang ) clan, became in the west of Lhasa built the Drepung Monastery.

See also

• Dzong in Tibet
• Dzong of Nedong
• Phagmodrupa dynasty

literature

• Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima : Crystal mirror of the philosophical teaching systems ( Grub-mtha 'shel-gyi me-long )
• Tang Jingfu: Zhongguo Zangchuan Fojiao ming seng lu . Gansu minzu chubanshe 1991, dymf.cn ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
• Rachel M. McCleary, Leonard WJ van der Kuijp: The Market Approach to the Rise of the Geluk School, 1419-1642 (PDF) colorado.edu

Web links

• Origins of Shoton tibetanarts.org (English)
• 绛 央 却 杰 · 札西 华 丹 《藏 传 佛教 高僧传 略》 (Chinese)
• A Brief History of Drepung Monastery StudyBuddhism.com
• A Brief History of Ganden Monastery StudyBuddhism.com
• Zhibang si chinatibetnews.com (Chinese)

References and comments

1. ↑ Chinese Jiangyang Quejie 绛 央 却 杰 / Jiangyang Quejie 絳 央 卻 傑 u. a.
2. ↑ Chinese Zhaxi Bandan 扎西 班 丹
3. ↑ tib. 'Bras spungs dgon pa
4. ↑ The third was Sera , which was founded in 1419 by the Tsongkhapa disciple Chamchen Chöje Shakya Yeshe (1354-1435).
5. ↑ Chinese Sangye 桑耶
6. ↑ Chinese Zedang si 澤當 寺
7. ↑ tib. Nam mkha 'bzang po ; Chinese Nanka Sangbo 南喀桑波 or Nanka Sangbu 南喀桑布 (also Neupon Namka-Zangpo; Tib .: sNe'u-dpon Nam-mkha 'bzang-po)
8. ↑ Tib. Rdzong dpon ; chin. zongben 宗 本
9. ↑ Chinese Neiwu Zong 內 鄔 宗 or Naiwu zong 乃 乌 宗
10. ↑ rdzong , Dzong du Tibet in the French-language Wikipedia
11. ↑ sne gdong rdzong , Dzong de Nédong in the French language Wikipedia

Jamyang Chöje (alternative names of the lemma)
'jam dbyangs chos rje, Jamyang Chöje Tashi Palden,' Jam-dbyangs Chos-rje bKra-shis dpal-ldan