Kirti Gompa

This article is about the monastery in Ngawa County. For the monastery in Zoigê, Sichuan, see Lhamo Kirti Monastery .

Kirti Monastery in Ngawa County, Sichuan

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཀིར ྟི་ དགོན
Wylie transliteration : kirti dgon
Chinese name
Simplified : 格尔登 寺
Pinyin : Ge'erdeng si

The Kirti Monastery (Tib. Kirti dgon ; Chin. Ge'erdeng Si 格尔登 寺) is an important monastery of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism in the eastern Tibetan cultural region of Amdo . It is located in the northwest of the greater community Ngawa the circle Ngawa Autonomous District Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang in the northern Chinese province of Sichuan . The monastery was founded in 1870. The monastery is a branch of the Lhamo Kirti monastery in Zoigê (Dzoge), Sichuan and is currently home to around 2,300 monks.

The most important incarnation series of the monastery is that of the Kirti Rinpoches , which goes back to Rongchen Gendün Gyeltshen ( rong chen dge 'dun rgyal mtshan ; 1374–1450).

Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche (1926-2006) founded a Kirti monastery in Dharamsala , India , in April 1990 .

Current situation

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On February 27, 2009, the monk Lobsang Trashi from Kirti Monastery set himself on fire because he wanted to protest for Tibet's freedom. On March 16, 2011, a monk at the monastery, Lobsang Phüntshog Jerutshang, died after setting himself on fire on the 3rd anniversary of a 2008 uprising. Chinese security forces then violently blocked the monastery and did not allow anyone to enter or leave the monastery, amid massive protests from the local population.

On the night of April 21st, 300 monks were abducted by the security forces and taken to an undisclosed location where, according to the Chinese state media, they were being subjected to a "moral education campaign".

Shortly after three monks were arrested in connection with the self-immolation of Lobsang Phüntshog Jerutshang at the end of September, two Kirti monks, Lobsang Könchog and Lobsang Kelsang, set themselves on fire again. Lobsang Könchog had all four limbs amputated, Lobsang Kelsang is currently in a hospital. Within a few days, four other monks of the monastery, Kelsang Wangchug, Khaying, Chöpel and Norbu Damdröl set themselves on fire. Then, on October 17th, the first female victim in this series of self-immolations occurred: the 20-year-old nun Tendzin Wangmo. Then 9 other monks from the Kirti monastery set themselves on fire. 2 nuns also set themselves on fire.

See also

• Kirti Rinpoche
• Tagtsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery , Tsodhun Kirti Monastery , Hortsang Kirti Monastery

literature

• Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou 2003

Web links

 Wikinews: Tibet: China's police abduct 300 monks  - message

• Ge'erdeng si - Chinese
• Aba xian - Ge'erdeng si - Chinese
• 格 底 仁波切 将赴 加拿大 开释 如何 面对 癌症 - Chinese

References and comments

1. ↑ Chinese 达扎朗摩格 尔登 寺
2. ↑ Chinese Rongqin Gedun Jianzan 绒 钦 • 格敦 坚赞 (see tarthang.com ( memento from March 5, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )) or Rongjing Gengguo Jianmucan 绒 靖 更 郭 坚 木 参 ( phoer.net ) etc.
3. ↑ 300 monks of the Kirti monastery kidnapped  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tibetan Review, May 1, 2011, accessed May 6, 2011.  

Kirti Gompa (alternative names of the lemma)
Kirti Gompa, Ge'erdeng Si 格尔登 寺格尔登 寺 , Gerdeng si, Ge'erdeng Gongba 格尔登贡巴, Ngaba Kirti Monastery, Namo si 纳摩 寺, Ge'erdi si 格尔 底 寺

Coordinates: 32 ° 54 ′ 49.7 "  N , 101 ° 41 ′ 35.9"  E