Pelpung

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Pelpung Thubten Chokhor Ling
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
དཔལ་ སྤུངས་ དགོན་ པ །
Wylie transliteration :
dpal spungs dgon pa
Chinese name
Simplified :
八 邦 寺
Pinyin :
Babang si

Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling ( Tibetan : dpal spungs thub bstan chos 'khor gling ; short: Pelpung Chökhor Ling, Tibetan: dpal spungs chos' khor gling ; དཔལ་ སྤུངས་ ཆོས་ འཁོར་ གླིང་ ། also: Palpung) is a 1727 dated 8. Tai Situpa Chökyi Chungne (1699 / 1700–1774) in Dêgê , Kham , founded monastery. It is the mother monastery of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism in Eastern Tibet and the headquarters of the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpas. Over time, Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling developed into a center of "Buddhist ecumenism" ( Rime ). All branch monasteries and centers of Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Lings also bear the name Pelpung and are grouped together in the "Pelpung Congregation" worldwide. Pelpung means "glorious union of study and practice" or "fortress of excellence".

Pelpung Thubten Chokhor Ling

Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling was known for its huge library with over 324,000 texts and an art collection of more than 10,000 thangka paintings. The founder of the monastery - the 8th Tai Situpa - was a great master of the "Karma Gadri" style (Tibetan: karma sgar bris , ཀརྨ་ སྒར་ བྲིས ། ) of thangka painting and the monks Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Lings were considered to be leaders in it the spiritual art of painting. The mother monastery of the Karma Kagyu tradition in Eastern Tibet and the center of the Rime movement could accommodate over a thousand monks. Besides the Tai Situpas, other lineages of incarnated lamas had their headquarters in Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling, including the Jamgön Kongtrül . At the time of the 11th Tai Situpa Pema Wangchug Gyelpo (1886–1952), Pelpung had a solid reputation for spiritual, docile, and artistic excellence and authority. In the late 1950s the monastery was destroyed. The reconstruction is still being worked on. 1998–1999 Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling was added to the list of buildings at risk worldwide.

Pelpung Thubten Chökhor Ling's printing house

After the printing house in Dege , the printing house of the Pelpung monastery was the second most important traditional printing house in Eastern Tibet , in which printing blocks for block prints were produced and stored. Numerous works of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools were printed in Pelpung, including the extensive collection of works by the Jamgön Kongtrül known under the title Rinchen Terdzö (Tibetan: rin chen gter mdzod , རིན་ ཆེན་ གཏེར་ མཛོད ། ; "Treasure of recovered teachings ") Lodrö Thaye (1813-1899).

Pelpung Sherab Ling

After the 12th Situ Rinpoche fled to India at the age of six, he was trained in Rumtek by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje . At the age of 22, in accordance with his historical legacy of the Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpas, he began to set up the Pelpung Sherab Ling Monastery in Himachal Pradesh , Northern India as his seat in exile. Pelpung Sherab Ling is home to around 750 monks, around 250 of whom are studying at the monastery university. Facilities for nuns and monks wishing to hold three-year retreats on the premises are also available. The project is dedicated to the connection of the four aspects of spirituality, education, health and culture.

The Pelpung Congregation

The Pelpung Congregation has more than 180 monasteries and temples across some Chinese and Tibetan districts and branch institutions in Europe, the United States, Oceania and Asia. Its European seat is Palpung Yeshe Chökhor Ling Europe, Palpung Europe for short , was established and is under the direction of Chöje Lama Palmo .

See also

literature

  • Josef Kolmaš: Pague Collection of Tibetan Prints from Derge, Volume III, Index of Titles, Book 1 and Book 2. Compiled and Introduced. Pague 1996. ISBN 80-85425-21-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also known as Karma Tenpe Nyinche Tsuglag Chökyi Nangwa (Tibetan: kar ma bstan pa´i nyin byed gtsug lag chos kyi snang ba ).
  2. ↑ http://tbrc.org/link/?RID=G36  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / tbrc.org  
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  4. ↑ www2.bremen.de: Green Tara / Green Tara ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.bremen.de
  5. ^ Asian Art : Worlds Monuments Watch
  6. ↑ http://www.palpung.org/
  7. ↑ ORF : Buddha preferred
  8. ↑ "Palpung Europe"
Pelpung (alternative names of the lemma)
Dpal spungs dgon pa; Babang si 八 邦 寺; 八 蚌 寺; དཔལ་ སྤུངས་ དགོན་ པ; Pelpung Gönpa; Babang Shengjiao Falun si 八 邦 • 圣教 法轮 寺; 八 蚌 寺

Coordinates: 31 ° 38 ′ 54 ″  N , 98 ° 47 ′ 45 ″  E