Mindrölling Monastery
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Tibetan script :
སྨིན་ གྲོལ་ གླིང །;
ཨོ་ རྒྱན་ སྨིན་ གྲོལ་ གླིང་ |
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Wylie transliteration : smin grol gling dgon pa;
o rgyan smin big gling |
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Mint Holing (Minzhoiling)
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THDL transcription : Mindrolling
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Other spellings: Mindroling,
Mindroling, Mindrolling |
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Traditional :
敏 珠 林寺
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Simplified :
敏 珠 林寺
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Pinyin : Mǐnzhūlín Sì
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The monastery Mindrölling ( Tib . Smin gling grol ) or Ugyen Mindrölling ( Tib . O rgyan smin grol gling ) is the largest Nyingma Monastery in Central Tibet . It is the founding monastery of the Mindrolling tradition , a sub-school of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism .
It is located in Zhanang County (Dranang) in Shannan Governorate in Tibet . The monastery was founded in 1676 by Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje ( Tib . : gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje ; 1646–1714), the teacher of the 5th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatsho and 1st Minling Trichen lineage holder .
The monastery dates back to an older sacred site from the end of the 10th century. During the Dsungareneinfälle in Tibet in the 18th century it was destroyed later by the Chinese. It was rebuilt.
The 12th Minling Thrichen Rinpoche ( smin gling khri chen rin po che ) (throne holder of the monastery) Künsang Wanggyel ( tib kun bzang dbang rgyal ); 1930–2008 lived in exile in a branch monastery in Dehradun , India .
The two main lineage holders of Mindrölling Monastery are Minling Thrichen and Minling Khenchen . The monastery gave birth to many side monasteries.
The Mindrölling Monastery in Zhanang has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-765) since 2006 .
See also
literature
- Gyurme Dorje : Footprint Tibet . ISBN 1-903471-30-3
- Cao Ziqiang, Mao Xiang & Xirao Nima [Sherab Nyima]: Xizang De Simiao He Senglü西藏 的 寺庙 和 僧侣 [Monasteries and Monks of Tibet], Beijing 1995
- bsTan-pavi-sgrol-med, History of sMin-grol-gling Monastery, China Tibetology Publishing House, Beijing, October 1992. ISBN 7-80057-074-6 .
Web links
- StudyBuddhism.com: A Brief History of Mindröl-Ling Monastery
- snowlionpub.com: His Holiness Mindroling Trichen Rinpoche Becomes Head of the Nyingma Order - English
References and footnotes
- ↑ The monastery is one of the monasteries Kathog (ka thog dgon pa), Pelyül (dpal yul dgon pa), Dzogchen (rdzogs chen dgon pa), Shechen (zhe chen dgon pa) and Dorje Drag (rdo rje brag dgon pa) so-called "six large seats" of the Nyingma school; see. rywiki.tsadra.org: Lineages of the six main Nyingma monasteries
- ↑ Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche passes away
- ↑ The Mindrölling Monastery in India has the address Clement Town 248002; Dehradun, Uttaranchal, cf. mindrolling.org ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 on WebCite ) 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. (official website)
| Mindrölling-Kloster (alternative names of the lemma) |
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| Mindrolling (smin grol gling dgon pa); Mindroling; Orgyen Mindroling Monastery; 邬 金 成熟 解脱 洲; སྨིན་ གྲོལ་ གླིང །; smin grol gling; Mint holing; Minzhoiling; Mindrolling; Mindroling; Mindroling; Mindrolling; 敏 珠 林寺 , Mǐnzhūlín Sì ; Ugyen Mindrol Ling; Ogyen Mindröl-Ling; U-rgyan sMin-grol-ling dGon-pa, Mindroling Monastery |
Coordinates: 29 ° 11 ′ 7 " N , 91 ° 24 ′ 17.6" E