Lama Shang

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : bla ma zhang
Chinese name
Simplified : 喇嘛 向
Pinyin : Lama Xiang

Lama Shang ( Tib. Bla ma Zhang ) and Shang Yudragpa Tsöndrü Dragpa ( Zhang g.yu brag pa brtson 'grus grags pa * 1123 at Lhasa ; † 1193 ) was the founder of Tshelpa Kagyu -Schule ( tib . Tshal pa bka 'brgyud pa ), one of the four great branches of the Kagyu school direction ( Barom , Karma- , Phagdru and Tshelpa Kagyu) of Tibetan Buddhism . He is the founder of the Tshelpa (Yanggön, founded 1175) and Tshel Gungthang (founded 1187) monasteries near Lhasa in the later 12th century .

Lama Shang comes from the village of Tshelpadru near Lhasa. His original name is Dharma Drag, he left his family at the age of 26 and became a monk, from then on he called himself Tsondru Drag , later he was generally referred to as Tshelpa Lama Shang .

Lama Shang began to study the scriptures at the age of 13, his teachers included the 'Great Doctor of Dagpo' (Gampopa) , Gompa Tshälthrim Nyingpo , (Chinese) Aokaba and Phagdru Dorje Gyelpo , later he spent a few years in Densa Thil monastery founded by Phagdru Dorje Gyelpo , found the support of the Gar clan and began planning the Tshelpa monastery.

Together with the Phagdru Kagyü founder Dorje Gyelpo and the Gelug founder Tsongkhapa , he is counted among the so-called "Three Treasures of Tibet".

Quote

He reports on his studies:

“Under Sam bu Lo tsā I studied a lot of Abhidharma and also the Pramāṅavārttika , the five ways and the Sūtrālaṁkāra . However, I did not understand these texts. "

Works

• Dpal ldan tshal pa bka 'brgyud kyi bstan pa'i mnga' bdag zhang g.yu brag pa brtson 'grus grags pa'i gsung' bum rin po che (Collected works of Zhaṅ brtson 'grus grags pa 1123-1193). 9 volumes. Edited by Khenpo Shedup Tenzin and Lama Thinley Namgyal. Kathmandu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihar, 2004

See also

• Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa

literature

• Kal Sang Gyal: Religions in Tibet ; Beijing, China Intercontinental Press; ISBN 7508504372 ( section on the Kagyü School, chin. )
• George N. Roerich : The Blue Annals , 2nd ed.Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas 1996

Web links

• info.tibet.cn: Caiba si (Tshelpa Monastery) - Chinese
• tibetanlineages.org: Zhang Yudragpa Tsondru Dragpa - English
• New Works on the Works of Lama Zhang
• The Works of Zhang Rinpoche

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Chinese Caiba Gaju pai 蔡 巴 噶舉派  /  蔡 巴 噶 举 or short Caibai Gaju 蔡 巴 噶 舉  /  蔡 巴 噶 举
2. ↑ Which in turn is divided into four main schools ( Nyingma , Kagyu , Sakya and Gelug ).
3. ↑ Chinese Caibazhu or Caibazhucun 蔡 巴 竹村
4. ↑ Chinese Dama Zha 达玛扎 / 達瑪扎 (according to info.tibet.cn ( memento of the original from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
5. ↑ or Tsöndru Dragpa ( brtson 'grus grags pa ; Chinese Zunzhu Zhapa 尊 珠 扎巴)
6. ↑ Chinese Caiba Lama Xiang 蔡 巴 喇嘛 向
7. ↑ Tib. Dwags po lha rje ; Chinese taboo Lajie 塔布拉杰 / 塔布拉傑
8. ↑ Tib. Sgom pa tshul khrims snying po ; Chinese Gongba Chuchen Ningbo 贡巴 楚 臣 宁波 / 貢巴 楚 臣 寧波 or Gongba Cicheng Ningbu 贡巴 · 次 成 宁布, short: Cicheng Ningbu 次 成 宁布 (1116-1169); a nephew of Gampopa .
9. ↑ Chinese 奥喀巴 / 奧喀巴
10. ↑ Chin. Pazhu Duoji Jiebo 帕竹 · 多吉杰波 / 帕竹 ‧ 多吉傑波
11. ↑ Chinese Dan Sati si 丹薩提 寺
12. ↑ Chinese 噶爾 家族
13. ↑ info.tibet.cn: Caibaba si (Tshelpa Monastery) ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 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 May 12, 2010) 
14. ↑ Chinese Xizang sanbao 西藏 三寶
15. ↑ Klaus Dieter Mathes: " Forms of violence and the renunciation of violence in the life stories of the Mahāsiddhās and Lamas ( Memento of the original of November 16, 2013 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. (PDF; 1.2 MB) "- buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de (found on May 12, 2010)