Rinchen Sangpo
Tibetan name |
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Tibetan script :
རིན་ ཆེན་ བཟང་པོ་
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Wylie transliteration : rin chen bzang po
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Other spellings: Rinchen Zangpo; Rinchen Sangpo; Renqin Sampo
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Chinese name |
Simplified :
仁钦桑布
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Pinyin : Rénqīn Sāngbō
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Rinchen Sangpo ( Tib. Rin chen bzang po ; born 958 ; died 1055 ) or Lochen Rinchen Sangpo ( lo chen rin chen bzang po ; "the great translator Rinchen Sangpo") was an influential monk of Tibetan Buddhism and a great translator Buddhist scriptures that ushered in the later heyday of Buddhism in the Guge Kingdom in western Tibet .
Life
He was sent abroad three times to study in Kashmir and India and translated many Buddhist scriptures. He was the great teacher of the first school of New Translations ( gsar ma ). He was given the honorary title of Dorje Lopön .
According to the Blue Annals , Rinchen Sangpo mastered and explained all the main texts of the Prajnaparamita and Tantra classes, in particular he explained yoga tantras. According to Go Lotsawa , it is mainly thanks to this translator that most of the tantric teachings were more widespread during the later heyday of Tibetan Buddhism than during the earlier ones .
He had many students, including the main students Lochung Legpe Sherab ( lo chung legs pa'i shes rab ), Gungshing Tsondru Gyeltshen ( gur shing brtson 'grus rgyal mtshan from mang nang ), Drapa Shönnu Sherab ( gzhon nu shes rab from Dra ( gra )) and Kyinor Jnana ( skyi nor jny'ana ), who were known as his "four spiritual sons" ( thugs sras ).
He is said to have founded over a hundred monasteries, mainly in western Tibet ( Ngari ) and Ladakh ( Mar yul ).
The Thoding Monastery (Tholing Monastery), the oldest monastery and religious center of the Ngari area , of which he later became abbot, was founded under the Guge Crown Prince and tribal chief Yeshe Ö ( tib.ye shes' od ) .
Rinchen Sangpo is also said to have founded the Manam Monastery in Zanda (Tsada), the Tabo Monastery in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh and Khorchag Gönpa in Burang .
Yeshe Pel from Kyithang ( Khyi-thang-pa Ye-shes-dpal ) in Guge wrote his biography.
See also
literature
- George Nicholas Roerich : The Blue Annals . 2nd Edition. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1996, ISBN 81-208-0471-6 , 2 volumes, excerpt
- The crystal mirror of philosophical systems: a Tibetan study of Asian religious thought / Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima ; translated by Geshé Lhundub Sopa with E. Ann Chavez and Roger R. Jackson; special contributions by Michael Sweet and Leonard Zwilling; edited by Roger R. Jackson. Boston: Wisdom Publications; [Montreal]: In association with the Institute of Tibetan Classics, c2009 (web)
- Chen Qingying : History of Tibet . China Intercontinental Press, Beijing 2004, books.google.de
- Gazangjia : Tibetan religions . Beijing 2003; ISBN 7-5085-0232-9
- Tang Jingfu 唐景福 : Zhongguo Zangchuan Fojiao ming seng lu 中国 藏 传 佛教 名僧 录 ("Directory of Famous Monks of Tibetan Buddhism"). Gansu minzu chubanshe, Lanzhou 1991 dymf.cn ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- OC Handa, Omacanda Hāṇḍā: Buddhist Western Himalaya: A politico-religious history . 2002 ( online excerpt with bibliographical information)
Web links
- collab.itc.virginia.edu: Biography Of Rin Chen Bzang Po (English)
- rigpawiki.org: Rinchen Zangpo (English)
- greenkiwi.co.nz: Gu-ge: an historical account of the western Tibet kingdom (Yeshi-o and Rinchen Zangpo) (English)
- men-tsee-khang.org: Lochen Rinchen Sangpo (958-1056 AD) ( Memento from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
References and comments
- ↑ Chin. Renqin Sangbo 仁钦桑波
- ↑ Chinese Da yishi Renqin Sangbo 大 译 师 仁钦桑波
- ↑ Rev. TK Lochen Tulku norbucholingcentre.org
- ↑ Sarma. rigpawiki.org
- ↑ Tib. རྡོ་ རྗེ་ སླ b ་ དཔོན་; rdo rje slob dpon ; Chinese Jingang Asheli 金刚 阿阇 梨
- ↑ himalayanart.org: Extract from Roerich
- ↑ or Kor-re, also called Byang-Chub Ye-shes' Od .
- ↑ Chinese Mana si 玛 那 寺 in Zanda (Tsada) district in Ngari ; see. Gyurme Dorje: Tibet handbook: with Bhutan (Manam Gonpa)
- ↑ Tabo Monastery ( web )
- ↑ = Юрий Николаевич Рерих
Rinchen Sangpo (alternative names of the lemma) |
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rin chen bzang po; Punching Rinchen Sangpo; lo chen rin chen bzang po; Renqin Sangbo 仁钦桑波 , Baoxian; 宝 贤; Rinchen Zangpo; Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo; 林 亲 桑 坡; 仁钦桑波; 仁钦 藏 卜; 宝 贤 译 师; Renqin Sampo; Rénqīn Sāngbō; 大 译 师 仁钦桑波; 仁钦桑波 译 师; 大 译 师 仁钦桑布; Renqin Sangbu 仁钦桑布; 仁 青 桑布 |
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SURNAME | Rinchen Sangpo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | rin chen bzang po; Renqin Sangbo; 仁钦桑波; Punching Rinchen Sangpo; lo chen rin chen bzang po; Da yishi Renqin Sangbo; 大 译 师 仁钦桑波 |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tibetan Buddhist minister and translator of Buddhist scriptures |
DATE OF BIRTH | 958 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1055 |