Ngawang Kalsang
Ngawang Kalsang (* 1866 ; † 1936 ), who is often referred to as the "first Tomo Geshe Rinpoche" (also spelled "Domo Geshe"), was one of the most influential members of the hierarchy of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism in his time . As grand abbot, he headed several monasteries in southeast Tibet and northern India , for example the Yiga Chöling monastery near Darjeeling and the Dungkar monastery in the Chumbi Valley. An authoritative teacher and friend of Ngawang Kalsang was Phabongkha Rinpoche .
Ngawang Kalsang emerged as a devotee of the future Buddha Maitreya , of whom he had monumental statues built. He was considered a great mystic among the population in the Himalayan region, to whom miraculous healings are ascribed.
Ngawang Kalsang became known far beyond Tibet as the teacher of Lama Angarika Govinda , about which Govinda reported in detail in his book The Path of White Clouds . Govinda founded the Arya Maitreya Mandala in 1933, inspired by Ngawang Kalsang . This therefore derives the series of his order leaders called Acharya from Ngawang Kalsang. Ngawang Klasang became the "first patriarch" of the Arya Maitreya Mandala.
literature
- Lama Anagarika Govinda: The path of the white clouds . Zurich 1969
- Donald S. Lopez : Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. University of Chicago Press, 1999 ( ISBN 9780226493114 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Donald S. Lopez: Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. University of Chicago Press, 1999 ( ISBN 9780226493114 ) p. 190
- ↑ Lama Anagarika Govinda: The way of the white clouds . Zurich 1969, pp. 24-86
- ↑ The Mandalacarya
- ↑ Origin and aims of the Arya Maitreya Mandala. Published by the Supreme Order Council. Dinapani, Distr. Almora, Kumaon-Himalaya, India, 2nd edition 1975, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ngawang Kalsan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tomo Geshe Rinpoche |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tibetan Buddhist mystic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1936 |