Rongwo

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Monk in the Rongwo Monastery

Rongwo ( Tibetan རོང་ བོ Wylie rong bo , Chin. Lóngwù , 隆 务) is a predominantly arable, Tibetan- populated region of central Amdo in the Chinese province of Qinghai , PR China . It is named after the main river Rongwo Chu (Chin. Longwu He ), also Gu Chu ( dgu chu ), a tributary of the Yellow River flowing from south to north .

Large community

The large community of Rongwo ( 隆 务 镇 , Lóngwù Zhèn ) is the capital and seat of government of Tongren County and Huangnan Autonomous District of the Tibetans . It is 130 km south-east of Xining and has been accessible from there since 2007 via an expressway that crosses the Mayin Mountains, which rise up to 3800 m. For the autonomous district as well as for the county, Rongwo is their political, economic and cultural center.

Wood painting of the Rongwo monastery

Administrative structure

At the village level, Rongwo is made up of three communities and seven villages. These are:

Culture

Monastic culture

The Rongwo Gönchen (Chin. Longwu Si ), founded in 1301 as the Sakyapa Monastery, was a decisive political factor in the region from the 14th to the 20th century. This makes it one of the oldest still active monasteries in Amdo. At the turn of the 16th to the 17th century, when the Gelugpa gained increasing influence after Sönam Gyatsho , the first so-called Dalai Lama , who was later counted as 3rd , with the Inner Mongolian prince Altan Khan , Rongwo became their patron School direction taken over.

painting

Anger painting: Padmasambhava

The Rongwo Valley is the center of the so-called Rebkong School ( Rebgong Art ) traditional painting, a Buddhist -oriented art that has its center in the Rongwo village of Wutun ("five villages") in the Rongwo Valley. Therefore, painting is sometimes referred to as Wutun art.

It is often referred to as a thangka painting school, but actually painting is not limited to thangkas (scroll paintings ), but mostly adorns the monastery walls in the north of Amdo; In addition to painting, Rebkong art also includes stucco and wood carving, stone carving and its own architectural style.

In the 1990s, on the initiative of Tsong Sherabgyal in Tongren, over 300 Tibetan artists created a giant hangka over 600 meters in length.

The Rebgong Art (Ch Regong Yishu热贡艺术;. Tib. Reb gong sgyu rtsal ) is on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dragönpa Könchog Tenpa Rabgye, p. 292; based on: Gruschke, Volume 1, p. 51
  2. ↑ Gruschke, Volume 1, p. 51f.
  3. ↑ Gruschke, Volume 1, pp. 53-58.
  4. ↑ A short introduction to the Great Thangka of Tibetan art and culture

literature

  • Dragönpa Könchog Tenpa Rabgye (1801-after 1865): Yul mdo smad kyi ljongs su thub bstan rin po che ji ltar dar ba'i tshul gsal bar brjod pa deb ther rgya mtsho zhes bya ba [A Political and Religious History of Amdo] ( Chinese edition Anduo Zhengjiao Shi , Lanzhou 1989, pp. 292–317)
  • Andreas Gruschke: "Rongwo Monasteries and Rebgong Art", in: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo , Volume 1: The Qinghai Part of Amdo , White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001, pp. 51-58.

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Coordinates: 35 ° 30 ′ 57.4 ″  N , 102 ° 1 ′ 24 ″  E