Rongtön Shecha Kunrig

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Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration :
rong ston shes bya kun rig; rong ston shākya rgyal mtshan; rong ston smra ba'i seng ge
Chinese name
Simplified :
绒 敦 • 马威 僧格; 绒 敦 · 释迦 坚赞; 绒 顿 • 西恰贡 日
Pinyin :
Rongdun Mawei Sengge; Rongdun Shijia Jianzan; Rongdun Xiqia Gongri

Rongtön Shecha Kunrig ( tib . Rong ston shes bya kun rig ; * 1367 ; † 1449 ) also known Rongtön Shakya Gyeltshen ( rong ston SHAKYA rgyal mtshan ) or Rongtön Mawe Sengge ( rong ston smra ba'i scorching ge ) was an important spiritual dignitaries Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism . He is considered to be the incarnation of Maitreya . He was a student of Yagthrug Sangye Pel ( g.yag phrug sangs rgyas dpal ; 1350-1414) or Yagthrug for short. Shakya Chogden and Gorampa Sönam Sengge are among Rongtön Shecha Kunrig's students .

In 1435 he founded the Nalendra ( na len dra dgon pa ) monastery in the north of Lhasa in the Phenpo ( 'phan po ) area , one of the most important monasteries of the Sakya school.

See also

literature

  • Lake Yixi Duojie 拉科 • 益 西多杰 : Zangchuan Fojiao gaoseng zhuanlüe 藏 传 佛教 高僧传 略 ("Brief biographies of important monks of Tibetan Buddhism "), Qinghai renmin chubanshe 青海 人民出版社 2007 ( online book presentation )

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References and comments

  1. ↑ The part of the name Rong 绒 is a toponym and denotes Gyarong (Chinese Jiarong 嘉绒) in Sichuan.
  2. ↑ cf. tibetanlineages.org: Yagton Sanggye Pal ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Rongtön Shecha Kunrig (alternative names of the lemma)
Rong ston Shes bya kun rig; Rongtön Shakya Gyeltshen; rong ston shākya rgyal mtshan; Rongton Sheja Kunrig; Rongtön Mawe Sengge; rong ston smra ba'i seng ge; Rongdun Xiqia Gongri 绒 顿 • 西恰贡 日; Shakya Gyaltsen (shākya rgyal mtshan); 絨 敦瑪 微 僧格
personal data
SURNAME Rongtön Shecha Kunrig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES rong ston shes bya kun rig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scholar of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Nalendra Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 1367
DATE OF DEATH 1449