Sönam Gyeltshen (Sakyapa)

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : བླ་ མ་ དམ་པ་ བསོད་ ནམས་ རྒྱལ་ མཚན་
Wylie transliteration : bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan
Official transcription of the PRCh : Soinam Gyaincain
THDL transcription : Sonam Gyeltsen
Other spellings: Sonam Gyeltshen
Chinese name
Traditional : 喇嘛 當 巴索南 堅贊
Simplified : 喇嘛 当 巴索南 坚赞
Pinyin : Lǎma Dāngbā Suǒnán Jiānzàn

Lama Dampa Sönam Gyeltshen (* 1312 ; † 1375 ) was a clergyman of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism , from 1344 to 1347 he was its head .

rGyal-rabs gsal-ba'i me-long

He is the author of the historical work rGyal-rabs gsal-ba'i me-long (light mirror of the genealogy of kings).

Works

• The clear mirror: a traditional account of Tibet's golden age. Sakyapa Sonam Gyaltsen's Clear mirror on royal genealogy; translated by McComas Taylor and Lama Choedak Yuthok; foreword by HH the fourteenth Dalai Lama; illustrated by Delek Chokjin Shastri. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1996. ISBN 1559390484
• Sørensen, PK, Tibetan Buddhist Historiography: The Mirror Illuminating the Royal Genealogies. An Annotated Translation of the XIVth Century Chronicle rGyal-rabs gsal-ba'i me-long , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994
• Sajia Suonan Jianzan 萨迦 · 索南 坚赞: Wangtong shixi mingjian 王 统 世系 明鉴 (translated by Chen Qingying陈庆英 and Renqing Zhaxi 仁 庆 扎西). Liaoning renmin chubanshe 1985

literature

• Claus Vogel : Thon-mi Sabhota's mission to India and Srong-bstan sgam-po's legislation, being the tenth chapter of bSod-nams rgyal-mthsan's rGyal-rabs gsal-bai me-long. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981. (News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-historical class, 1981.1).

Web links

• Literature by and about bSod-nams-rgyal-mtshan in the catalog of the German National Library
• bsod nams rgyal mtshan (b. 1312 d. 1375)
• Xizang wangtong ji - Chinese

Sönam Gyeltshen (alternative names of the lemma)
Sakyapa Sonam Gyeltshen; sa skya pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan