Karma Gompa

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Main hall of the Karma Gompa
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
karma gdan sa dgon pa;
karma dgon
Chinese name
Simplified :
噶 玛丹萨 寺
Pinyin :
Gama Dansa si

The monastery Karma Gompa ( karma dgon pa ), also Karma Dansa ( karma gdan sa ), is the founding monastery of the Tibetan Buddhist school of Karma Kagyu , the later center of which is (depending on the sources) Tsurphu Monastery, which was built half a decade to four decades later was near Lhasa .

The monastery, founded in 1147, according to other sources in 1184 by Chödzin Gemphel ( chos 'dzin dge' phel ), who later became the 1st Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa ( dus gsum mkhyen pa ), is located at an altitude of 3800 m around 120 km north of Qamdo in Kham in a side valley of the Dza Chu ( Mekong ).

Despite the destruction in the Cultural Revolution , at least the building complex of the main hall and relics of the burial halls of some eminent lamas have survived. a. the grave choruses (stupa) of the Düsum Khyenpa as well as the one in which the mortal remains of the Situ Rinpoche are encased.

Today around 200 monks live permanently in the largely rebuilt monastery, while 500 are closely associated with it.

literature

  • Cao Ziqiang, Mao Xiang & Xirao Nima [Sherab Nyima]: Xizang De Simiao He Senglü [Monasteries and Monks of Tibet], Beijing 1995.
  • "Karma Dansa, the cradle of the Karma-Kagyupas", in: Andreas Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces : Kham, vol. 1, Bangkok 2004, pp. 45-49.
  • Roerich, Georges de: The Blue Annals . Calcutta 1949, p. 479.
  • Yang Guiming & Ma Jixiang: Zangchuan Fojiao Gao Seng Chuanlüe [Biographies of Eminent Monks of Tibetan Buddhism], Xining 1992, pp. 106-108.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Information from monks in Karma Gompa during a visit in 2005.
  2. ↑ karma dgon in the TBRC resource base
  3. ↑ Cf. dus gsum mkhyen pa in the TBRC resource base as well as Yang and Ma 1992 and Gruschke 2004, p. 45.
  4. ↑ In Kagyüpa monasteries, not all associated monks are permanently present in the monastery.
Karma Gompa (alternative names of the lemma)
Karma Densa, Gámǎ Dānsà sì 噶 玛丹萨 寺, Gama si 噶玛 寺, Gama Dansha si 噶 玛丹莎 寺, Gama Lading si 噶 玛拉 顶 寺, karma lha steng dgon pa, Kharma Lhadeng, Karma monastery

Coordinates: 31 ° 49 ′ 50 ″  N , 96 ° 54 ′ 50 ″  E