Kumbum Champa Ling
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Tibetan script :
སྐུ་ འབུམ་ བྱམས་ པ་ གླིང
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Wylie transliteration : sku 'bum byams pa gling
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
kumpum tɕʰampaliŋ ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Gumbum Qambaling
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THDL transcription : Kumbum Jampaling
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Other spellings: Kumbum Jamba Ling
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Traditional :
塔爾寺
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Simplified :
塔尔寺
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Pinyin : Tǎ'ěr Sì
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Kumbum Monastery ( . Tib : sku 'bum byams pa gling , "Monastery of hundreds of thousands of images of the Buddha Maitreya "; also: Gumbum - or Tar Monastery ) in the circle Huangzhong (湟中县) the province of Qinghai , China , is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery from the Ming Dynasty (1560). It is considered one of the six major monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism .
history
The first monastery buildings were inaugurated in 1578. In 1584, Sonam Gyatsho , the 3rd Dalai Lama , set up the first study faculty here on his first visit, from which one of the most important monastic universities in the Tibetan highlands developed over the next centuries.
The founder of the Gelug order Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is said to have been born on the site of the oldest temple hall of the monastery. At the point where the blood that was shed at birth seeped away, a miraculous tree sprout afterwards, the leaves of which had carried hundreds of thousands of images of the Buddha. The Tibetan name of the monastery is derived from this.
The Chinese name on the other hand - Ta'er Si means "pagoda monastery" - is derived from a chörten (Chinese ta = pagoda , stupa, etc.) that Tsongkhapa's mother built on the spot where she was born in 1379 Placenta fell to the ground. Both names are derived from the founding legend associated with Tsongkhapa's wonderful birth.
The older brother of the 14th Dalai Lama, Thubten Jigme Norbu , was the reincarnation of the monastery at the time when his brother was "discovered". He lived in the USA since 1951, where he worked as a translator for the CIA and supported the guerrilla fighters in Kham as part of the CIA Tibetan program .
Kumbum Jampa Ling has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-111) as Ta'er Si since 1961 , and the butter carving of the Kumbum Monastery is also on the list of the intangible cultural heritage of the People's Republic of China . As the most conveniently located Lamaistic monastery, it has been the most visited Tibetan religious place of worship (by domestic and foreign tourists) since the 1980s. The monastery is about 40 kilometers southwest of Xining and can be easily reached by bus.
literature
- Wilhelm Filchner and Wilhelm Alexander Unkrig : Kumbum Dschamba Ling. The Monastery of the Hundred Thousand Pictures of Maitreyas , Leipzig 1933 Digitized
- Kumbum Jampa Ling , in: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo. Vol. 1 - The Qinghai Part of Amdo by Andreas Gruschke , Bangkok 2001, pp. 21-29.
- Joachim Karsten: A Study on the sKu-'bum / T'a-erh ssu Monastery in Ch'ing-hai , Auckland University, New Zealand, 1997
Web links
- Tar Monastery (Engl.)
- Tar Monastery (Engl.)
- StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of the Kumbum Monastery
- Qinghai Xining Ta'er si (gong 15 zhang) (Photos) (chin.)
Footnotes
- ↑ tbrc.org: sku 'bum byams pa gling ( 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.
- ↑ Ernst Schäfer: Tibet and Central Asia , 1965, p. 134; Wolfgang Bartke, Who's Who in the People's Republic of China , Saur 1987, ISBN 3-598-10610-6 , p. 13; Pierre Huard, Ming Wong, Chine d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: civilization, arts, techniques , Horizons de France 1972, pp. 8, 173; Ling Haicheng, Buddhism in China , Beijing, China Intercontinental Press 2004, ISBN 7-5085-0535-2 , p. 172.
Coordinates: 36 ° 29 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 101 ° 34 ′ 3 ″ E