Thadül Yangdül

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With Thadül Yangdül ( Tib .: mtha '' dul yang'dul ), to dt. "(Lhakhang for) pacifying the border (regions and) the border regions that extend beyond (the borders)", the configuration becomes one thirteen Lhakhang (= temples) existing complex, which was built at the time of the Tibetan King Songtsen Sangpo (r. 620-649) allegedly due to the geomantic tests of his Chinese wife Wengchen in the area of ​​the Greater Tibetan Empire.

The aim of this facility was to peg a female demon who was hostile to Buddhism , whose body stretched over the whole of Tibet, with the help of this lhakhang, which was erected on her limbs, and thus to enable the introduction of Buddhism. The center of the complex was the Jokhang , which today is the center of the Lhasa Tsuglagkhang and is the most important sanctuary of Tibetan Buddhism. He hit the demon in the heart. The surrounding temples were in different parts of what is now Tibet and Bhutan . The most famous Lhakhangs that can still be visited today include the Jamtin Lhakhang in Kyirong and the Tradün Lhakhang on the Tsangpo route to the holy mountain Kailash .

literature

  • Michael Aris. Bhutan. Warminster 1979.
  • Andre Alexander: The Temples of Lhasa. Tibetan Buddhist Architecture from the 7th to the 21st Century. Serindia, Chicago 2005.
  • Karl-Heinz Everding: Tibet. Lamaistic monastery culture, nomadic way of life and everyday rural life on the 'roof of the world'. DuMont art travel guide, Ostfildern 2009.
  • Michael Henss: Tibet. The cultural monuments. OO (1981).
  • Knut Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen: The Lhasa Atlas. Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape. Shambala, Boston 2001.