Nechung Monastery
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Tibetan script :
གནས་ ཆུང་ དགོན །
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Wylie transliteration : gnas chung dgon
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
nɛtɕʰuŋ kø̃ ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Naiqung
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THDL transcription : Nechung
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Other spellings: Noodling, night
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Traditional :
乃瓊 寺
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Simplified :
乃琼 寺
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Pinyin : Nǎiqióng Sì
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The Nechung is a Buddhist monastery of the Gelug -School in the field of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . The monastery is located near Drepung Monastery. Until 1959 it was the site of the Nechung Oracle , which the Dalai Lama consults on important matters. This "State Oracle" was initially located in Samye Monastery and was moved to Lhasa in the 17th century at the time of the 5th Dalai Lama . Today the oracle resides in the new Nechung monastery in Dharamsala .
Founding myth
An oracle deity should in this region on the move have been, and was, after it to have taken possession of a medium blocked by the wife of the medium in a box and in this case on the River Lhasa River suspended.
Lama Cogpa Jangchub Pälden , who was near the later Drepung monastery , is said to have had a vision and sent one of his students to recover the box.
The student found the box and carried it on his shoulders until it became so heavy for him that he had to set it down. Out of curiosity, he is said to have opened the box, whereupon a white dove flew out of the box and sat down on a birch tree . Lama Cogpa is said to have said:
“The Dharmapala is great, but the place [Tib. ne ] is small [Tib. chung ]! "
This is how Lama Cogpa named the place and supposedly had the monastery built there.
See also
Web links
- Petra H. Maurer: The Tibetan State Oracle (sku-rten) of the Nechung Monastery (gNas-chung) (tibet-encyclopaedia.de)
- The Oracle (Boeddhistische Oemroep Stichting)
- Nechung Oracle Lobsang Namgyal (The Tibet Album, Pitt Rivers Museum / British Museum)
literature
- Karl-Heinz Everding: Tibet: Lamaist monastery culture, nomadic ways of life and rural everyday life on the "roof of the world" . Ostfildern: Dumont Reiseverlag, 2009, p. 181f.
Footnotes
- ↑ z. B. in Günther Schulemann: History of the Dalai Lamas . Wiesbaden: Verlag O. Harrassowitz, 1958.
- ↑ z. B. Laurence Austine Waddell: Lhasa and Its Mysteries. London: EP Dutton, 1906.
Coordinates: 29 ° 40 ′ 17 ″ N , 91 ° 3 ′ 21 ″ E