Sherab Gyatsho (Gelugpa)

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཤེས་རབ་ རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Wylie transliteration : shes rab rgya mtsho
Chinese name
Simplified : 喜饶嘉措

Sherab Gyatsho talking to the great helmsman during the 1954 National People's Congress.

Geshe Sherab Gyatso ( Tib. : Shes rab rgya mtsho; * in 1884 in the region of Amdo in today's autonomous county Xunhua the salt lakes in the southeast of the city Hǎidōng in the Chinese province Qīnghǎi , †  1968 ) was a Chinese monk and scholar of the Gelugpa -Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and politicians of Tibetan origin.

Life path

As a child he was sent to Gori Dratshang Monastery . Later Sherab continued his studies in Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province . In 1896 he went to Drepung Monastery. The monks of this monastery and of Tengyeling stood up against the Dalai Lama on the question of the expulsion of the Chinese in 1911-13 . In 1919–21 there were repeated conflicts with the government.

Essentially, he lived from 1903 to 1935 (? 1937) as a lama in Lhasa, where he had reached Geshe Grad in 1916 . He was involved in the publication of the collected works of Butön Rinchen Drub and the collected works of Desi Sanggye Gyatsho . He is also said to have contributed to a new compilation of the Lhasa Kanjur .

1940s

He traveled to Nanking via India and spent most of the China incident in Chungking. There he was active in the “Society for the Promotion of Tibetan Culture”. From October 1942 he was a member of the toothless 3rd People's Assembly of the KMT regime . Since May 1945 he was a candidate, from 1946 a deputy member of the 6th Central Control Committee of the KMT. 1947-49 he served as one of the vice-presidents of the "Commission for Mongolian and Tibetan Questions" ( 蒙藏 委員會 ).

After the liberation

After the liberation , Sherab Gyatsho became a member of the government of his home province Qīnghǎi - since December 1954 as one of the vice-governors. He was also an invited member of the 1st  Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese People (CPPCC), into which he was re-elected for the next three legislative terms. At the same time he sat on the committee for nationality issues and on the (military and) administrative council of Northwest China from 1950 to September 1954.

Buddhist Association

Committee meeting during the General Assembly of the Chinese Buddhist Association in Beijing. Sherab Gyatso (seated 2nd from left), Zhào Pǔchū, the General Secretary, at the head end.

Sherab Gyatsho, head of the delegation of the Buddhist Association of China on a visit to Burma, carries a small pagoda during a procession to mark the presentation of gifts. A sentence of the Chinese Buddhist canon and an alms bowl were also handed over, April 11, 1955.

First deputy chairman, at the side of the aged Yuányīng († 1953), then his successor he served as president of the newly founded Beijing Buddhist Association (BAC) from 1953-66 . He was also nominally head of their training institute in the Guǎngjì Temple (廣濟寺). In fact, however, the loyal layperson Zhào P alschū pulled the strings as the organization's general secretary.

Also, the board of the World Buddhist Association ( World Fellowship of Buddhists ), he worked with until the end of the 1961st In this capacity he made trips abroad to Burma in April 1955 and again with Chou En-lai (Dec. 1960), to the 4th  World Buddhist Congress in Kathmandu in Nov. 1956 and in May 1959 to the World Peace Congress in Sweden. Delegations under his nominal leadership drove in 1961 to loan the tooth relic to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka ) and in November to the 6th World Buddhist Congress in Phnom Penh.

At the same time, Sherab was director of the Institute for Buddhism in Beijing and owner of several other powerless posts in organizations in the field of friendship between peoples and nationality issues.
He had to resign from his position as Vice-Governor Qīnghǎis, probably for age rather than political reasons, in July 1966.

His rebirth is said to have been found in 1976 in Amdo near Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery.

Works

• Collected works: 喜 饒 大師 文集 , Xǐ ráo dàshī wénjí
• 藏族 文化 概論 , Zàngzú wénhuà gàilùn ["Introduction to Tibetan Culture"]

literature

• Karma-phun-tshogs, Karma Phuntsho: Mipham's dialectics and the debates on emptiness: to be, not to be or neither. 2nd Edition. Riyang Books, Thimphu 2013, ISBN 978-99936-899-5-9 .
• Stephan von Minden (Ed.): Chinese Biographical Archive. Saur, Munich 1996–1998, ISBN 3-598-33937-2 , Fiche 254, 337. (accessed via the Chinese biographical index, 2000, 3 volumes)
• Johannes Prip-Møller, Henry Lohner: Buddhist temples in China. 中原佛寺 圖 考 [ Zhōngyuán fósì túkǎo. ] Volume II, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-7273-7 , pp. 614–615, 642.
• Heather Stoddard: Long Life of rDo-sbis dGe-bšes Šes-rab rGya-mcho (1884–1968). In: Helga Uebach, Jampa L. Panglung (Ed.): Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 4th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Commission for Central Asian Studies, Munich 1988, pp. 465–471.

Web links

Commons : Sherab Gyatso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sherab Gyatso / 4642 Geshe Sherab Gyatso
• 古 雷 寺 - Chinese

References and footnotes

1. ↑ tib. Dga 'ldan' phel rgyas gling (sgo ris grwa tshang)  ( 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. , Chinese Gǔléi sì古 雷 寺 in central Amdo in the area of ​​the Tibetan community of Daowei ( 道 幃 藏族 鄉 , Dào wéi zàngzú xiāng , Tib. rDo-sbis ) in the southeast of Xunhua, Qinghai Province.  
2. ↑ Xiraojiacuo (fodian.goodweb ) (zggr. 2010-01-15)
3. ↑ Who's who in Tibet (2010-07-07).

Sherab Gyatsho (alternative names of the lemma)
Dobi Geshe Sherab Gyatsho; rdo sbis dge bshes shes rab rgya mtsho; Sherab Gyatso; Dobi Geshé Sherap Gyatso; rDo-sbis dGe-bšes Šes-rab rGya-mcho; chin. 喜饒嘉措, 喜饶嘉措, 喜饒嘉措 大師, 喜饶嘉措 大师