Pelgon Thrinle

The astronomer Pelgön Thrinle

Pelgön Thrinle ( Tib . : dpal mgon 'phrin las ; * 2nd half of the 15th century , † 1st half of the 16th century ) was a well-known Tibetan astronomer and master of the Sinotibetan divination calculations . He worked as an astronomer, court astrologer and divination master at the court of the Phagmo Drupa rulers. His works were used extensively by Desi Sanggye Gyatsho for the composition of the Vaiḍūrya dkar-po .

Pelgön Thrinle was born as the youngest son of Phugpa Josepa (Tib .: phug pa jo sras pa ). He belonged to an old family of astronomers and divination masters. Both his grandfather Āryadeva and two of his uncles, namely Künga Pel (Tib .: kun dga 'dpal ) and the famous Phugpa Lhündrub Gyatsho , were great experts in astronomy.

Of Pelgön Thrinle's numerous writings, his work on the theory of the mean movement of the heavenly bodies is particularly noteworthy, which is entitled Zhag gsum rnam dbye mkhas pa'i yid 'phrog ("Analysis according to the three types of day that robs scholars of the mind"). The titles of other treatises written by Pelgön Thrinle have also come down to us, namely:

1. gShin rje dpung gnon ,

2. Payment mdzes rgyan ,

3. Lo zla'i 'go' dzin ,

4. Dus sbyor malika'i phreng ba'i rtsa-'grel ,

5. lHa dbang phyug gis brtsams pa'i dbyangs 'char gyi rgyud Le'u bcu-pa'i' grel-pa tu mchog dga'-ba'i sgra-dbyangs ,

6. bDun-tshig tu phab pa'i sgra-dbyangs ,

7. 'Byung ba khong khrol ,

8. bDud rtsi 'o-chu ma'i rgyun ,

9. bDe legs kun 'byung .

literature

• sde-srid Sangs-rgyas rgya-mtsho: Phug-lugs rtsis kyi legs-bshad mkhas-pa'i mgul-rgyan vaiḍūr dkar-po'i do-shal dpyod-ldan snying-nor , block print, 634 sheets
• sde-srid Sangs-rgyas rgya-mtsho: bsTan-bcos vaiḍūr dkar-po las dris-lan 'khrul-snang gya'-sel don gyi bzhin-ras ston byed , block print, 473 sheets
• Zuiho Yamaguchi: Chronological Studies in Tibet . Chibetto no rekigaku: Annual Report of the Zuzuki Academic foundation X, pp. 77-94 1973
• Dieter Schuh : Studies on the history of the Tibetan calendar calculation . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1973 ( Directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany . Supplement 16, ZDB -ID 538341-9 ).