Ngawang Tsondru

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : འཇམ་ དབྱངས་ བཞད་ པ་ ངག་ དབང་ བརྩོན་ འགྲུས
Wylie transliteration : 'jam dbyangs bzhad pa ngag dbang brtson' grus
THDL transcription : Jamyang Zhepa Ngakwang Tsondru

Jamyang Shepa Ngawang Tsondru ( Tib. 'Jam dbyangs bzhad pa ngag dbang brtson' grus ; born 1648 ; died 1721 ) was an important clergyman of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism . He was the first Jamyang Shepa. In 1709 he founded the Gelugpa Monastery Labrang in Amdo , the most important Tibetan monastery outside the Tibet Autonomous Region . He is the author of a famous text on Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical teachings: Grand Presentation of the Teachings ( Grub-mtha 'chen-mo ). Among other things, he is the author of a treatise on Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika .

Ngawang Tsondrü is from what is now Xiahe County in the Gannan Autonomous Region of the Tibetans in Amdo and was a disciple of the 5th Dalai Lama . After his training at the Gomang Faculty of Drepung Monastery near Lhasa , he was invited by the Mongol ruler of Kokonor , Ganden Erdene Junang, a grandson of Gushri Khan , to return to Amdo and teach Buddhism there. Ngawang Tsondru then founded the Labrang Monastery .

His textbooks are followed in some of the subdivisions of the monastic faculties of Kumbum Monastery , in the Gomang and Deyang faculties of Drepung Monastery, and in Labrang Monastery .

Works

Grub-mtha 'chen-mo

literature

Jeffrey Hopkins: Maps of the Profound: Jamyang Shayba's Great Exposition of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Views on the Nature of Reality , Snow Lion, 2003 ( web )
Daniel Cozort, Craig Preston: Buddhist Philosophy: Losang Gonchok's Short Commentary to Jamyang Shayba's Root Text on Tenets . Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2003 ISBN 978-1-55939-198-6 ( web )
Gyamyang Yurme Wangbu, Biography of the First Gyamyang, Gansu Nationalities Publishing House, Lanzhou, June 1987. ISBN 7-5421-0027-0 . Hardcover. Gansu National Minorities Ancient Books Series.

Web links

References and footnotes

↑ bomi.gov.cn: Jiamuyang Huaxiu Awang Zongzhe - Yishi Jiamuyang huofo ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 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. (found on September 21, 2010) @1@ 2

↑ Ie the first Trülku of the Labrang Monastery .

↑ Chinese Jiaopai guang lun 教派广论

↑ Translated into English by Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). - See the web link Root Lines on Classical Indian Philosophies by Jamyang Shepa translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa ( memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - found on September 21, 2010 @1@ 2

↑ Sanskrit: Pramāṇavarttikakārika ; tib. Tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tsig le'ur byas pa ; Chinese Shiliang lun 釋量論 / 释量论

↑ On his writings, see bomi.gov.cn ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Jiamuyang Huaxiu Awang Zongzhe - Yishi Jiamuyang huofo & wbf.net.cn ( Memento of the original from September 2, 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. : Labuleng Liu da xueyuan xiuxi tizhi yuankao (found on September 21, 2010) and tsemtulku.com ( MS Word ; 764 kB): The Gelug tradition (found on September 21, 2010). @1@ 2 @1@ 2

↑ Chinese Chahan Danjin 察罕丹津 ; entitled "Prince South of the Yellow River" (Chin. Henan Qinwang ); see. Ute Wallenböck: "Labrang: Ethnic and cultural melting pot on the eastern periphery of Tibet", in: Andre Gingrich - Guntram Hazod (ed.): The edge and the middle: Contributions to social anthropology and cultural history of Tibet and the Himalayas , Vienna 2006, p. 153–163 ( web )

↑ or Kumbum Champa Ling (Tib .: sku 'bum byams pa gling)

↑ T. sGo-mang Grva-tshang

↑ Tib. 'Bras-spungs dGon-pa

↑ T. Bla-brang dGon-pa

↑ StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of the Kumbum Monastery & A Brief History of the Ganden Monastery ( Alexander Berzin ) - found on June 22, 2016 - cf. Jetsün Chökyi Geltshen (Tib .: rje btsun pa chos kyi rgyal mtshan ; 1469–1544).

Ngawang Tsondrü (alternative names of the lemma)
Jamyang Shepe Dorje, Ngawang Tsondru; Chin. Jiamuyang Huaxiu Awang Zongzhe 嘉木样 · 华秀 · 阿旺宗哲 ; 嘉木樣協巴多傑; 嘉木样一世华秀 · 俄昂宗哲; 'jam dbyangs bzhad pa'i rdo rje , ngag dbang brtson' grus , Künkyen Jamyang-Shaypa Ngawang-Tsondrü; Kun-mkhyen 'Jam-dbyangs bzhad-pa Ngag-dbang brtson-'grus, Jamyang Shyepa Ngawang Tsondrü,' jam dbyangs bzhad pa ngag dbang brtson 'grus, 嘉木样 · 华秀 · 阿旺宗哲 —— 一世嘉木样活佛, Jamyang Shepa Ngawang Tsondru, E'ang Zongzhe 俄昂宗哲; Künkhyen Jamyang Shepa Ngawang Tsondru

personal data
SURNAME	Ngawang Tsondru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jamyang Shepa Ngawang Tsondru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Tibetan Buddhist minister, founder of Labrang Monastery, 1st Jamyang Shepa
DATE OF BIRTH	1648
DATE OF DEATH	1721

[1] .gov.cn: Jiamuyang Huaxiu Awang Zongzhe - Yishi Jiamuyang huofo ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 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. (found on September 21, 2010) @1@ 2

[2] Ie the first Trülku of the Labrang Monastery .

[3] Chinese Jiaopai guang lun 教派广论

[4] Translated into English by Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). - See the web link Root Lines on Classical Indian Philosophies by Jamyang Shepa translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa ( memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - found on September 21, 2010 @1@ 2

[5] Sanskrit: Pramāṇavarttikakārika ; tib. Tshad ma rnam 'grel gyi tsig le'ur byas pa ; Chinese Shiliang lun 釋量論 / 释量论

[6] On his writings, see bomi.gov.cn ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Jiamuyang Huaxiu Awang Zongzhe - Yishi Jiamuyang huofo & wbf.net.cn ( Memento of the original from September 2, 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. : Labuleng Liu da xueyuan xiuxi tizhi yuankao (found on September 21, 2010) and tsemtulku.com ( MS Word ; 764 kB): The Gelug tradition (found on September 21, 2010). @1@ 2 @1@ 2

[7] Chinese Chahan Danjin 察罕丹津 ; entitled "Prince South of the Yellow River" (Chin. Henan Qinwang ); see. Ute Wallenböck: "Labrang: Ethnic and cultural melting pot on the eastern periphery of Tibet", in: Andre Gingrich - Guntram Hazod (ed.): The edge and the middle: Contributions to social anthropology and cultural history of Tibet and the Himalayas , Vienna 2006, p. 153–163 ( web )

[8] r Kumbum Champa Ling (Tib .: sku 'bum byams pa gling)

[9] T. sGo-mang Grva-tshang

[10] Tib. 'Bras-spungs dGon-pa

[11] T. Bla-brang dGon-pa

[12] StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of the Kumbum Monastery & A Brief History of the Ganden Monastery ( Alexander Berzin ) - found on June 22, 2016 - cf. Jetsün Chökyi Geltshen (Tib .: rje btsun pa chos kyi rgyal mtshan ; 1469–1544).