Tshel Gungthang

The monastery Tshel Gungthang ( Tib. Tshal supply thang ) in the area of Lhasa in Tibet , about 10 km east of the city of Lhasa, is a 1187 -built Buddhist monastery that was originally for Kagyu belonged -School and later the Gelug was affiliated -Schule . The temple was founded by Lama Shang ( bla ma zhang ; 1123–1194), the founder of the Tshelpa Kagyu School.

It was the seat of the Tshel ( tshal ) family or the Tshelpa rulers or governors of the Tibetan ten thousand Tshel Gungthang . It was located near the Tshelpa Monastery in the historic Ü Province in western Lhasa. In the middle of the 14th century, the Kanjur collection of the Tibetan Buddhist canon was revised here, for which the prince of the central Tibetan region, Tshelpa Künga Dorje (1309-1364), provided money.

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“The Kanjur collection of the Buddha's authoritative words was subjected to a thorough revision from 1347 to 1351 in the monastery of Tshel Gungthang in Ü. The Tripön from Tshel, Tshelpa Künga Dorje (1309–1364), made money available for this. Another edition that differs from the Tshelpa version was created in Zhalu in Tsang. "

Abbots

German name / transcription after Wylie (life data) / abbot from ... to

• 1. Lama Shang (bla ma zhang)
• 2. Shakya Yeshe (shakya ye shes, 1147-1207), 1194-1207
• 3. Changye (byang yes), 1208-1210
• 4. Lhachug Kharwa Nyida Ö (lha phyug mkhar ba nyi zla 'od, 1135-1215), 1210-1214
• 5. Sanggye Bum (sangs rgyas' bum), 1214-1231
• 6. Sanggye Nyingpo (sangs rgyas snying po, d. 1237), 1231-1237
• 7. Rinpoche Sanggye Shönnu (rin po che sangs rgyas gzhon nu, d. 1260) 1238–1242
• 8. Serkhang Tengpa Künga Gyeltshen (gser khang steng pa kun dga 'rgyal mtshan, 1223–1292), 1261–1292
• 9. Sang Rinpa (sangs rin pa, 1247-1301), 1293-1302
• 10. Shakya Bumpa (shakya 'bum pa, 1265-1310), 1302-1310
• 11. Changchub Pel Sangpo (byang chub dpal bzang po, 1281-1356), 1310-1356
• 12. Chennga Dragpa Shenyenpa (spyan snga grags pa bshes gnyen pa, 1322-1381) 1357-1381.

literature

• Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz: Small History of Tibet , Munich 2006
• Kal Sang Gyal: Religions in Tibet ; Beijing, China Intercontinental Press; ISBN 7508504372 ( section on the Kagyü School, chin. )
• Per K. SØRENSEN and Guntram HAZOD in Cooperation with TSERING GYALPO: Rulers on the Celestial Plain. Ecclesiastic and Secular Hegemony in Medieval Tibet. A Study of Tshal Gung-thang . Vol 1 and Vol. 2. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007. IX, 1011 S. ISBN 978-3-7001-3828-0 . ( Online revision )

See also

• Tshelpa monastery
• Zhalu , Tsang (province)
• Narthang Gönpa

Web links

• Cai Gongtang si (Tshel Gungthang Monastery) - Chinese (Photos)
• Tsel Gungtang - English

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Chinese Cai Gongtang si 蔡公堂 寺 or Cai Gongtang si 蔡 贡唐 寺 etc.
2. ↑ Shang Yudragpa Tsondru Dragpa ( zhang g.yu brag pa brtson 'grus grags pa ); Chin. Xiang Zunzhu Zhaba 向 ‧ 尊 珠 扎巴
3. ↑ Who also founded the Tshelpa monastery (Yanggön), the ancestral monastery of the Tshelpa Kagyu school ( Tib .: tshal pa bka 'brgyud pa ), one of the four major branches of the Kagyu school direction ( Barom , Karma- , Phagdru- and Tshelpa-Kagyü) of the Tibetan Tripitaka , which in turn is divided into four main schools ( Nyingma , Kagyü , Sakya and Gelug ).
4. ↑ The author of the Red Annals .
5. ↑ Kollmar-Paulenz, p. 92.
6. ↑ Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, Small History of Tibet , Munich 2006, p. 92.

Tshel Gungthang (alternative names of the lemma)
Cai Gongtang si 蔡公堂 寺, Cai Gongtang si 蔡 贡唐 寺 / 蔡 貢唐 寺, Gongtang si 贡唐 寺, Tsalgungthang Monastery, Tsal Gung-thang, Cai Gongtang, Caigongtang 蔡公堂, Gungthang Monastery; Tshel Gungthang Gön; tshal gung thang dgon, Gongtang si 公堂 寺

Coordinates: 29 ° 38 '23.4 "  N , 91 ° 13' 12.1"  E