Tshurphu monastery

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The Tshurphu Monastery
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
མཚུར་ བུ་ དགོན
Wylie transliteration :
mtshur phu dgon
Chinese name
Simplified :
楚 布 寺
Pinyin :
Chǔbù Sì

Tshurphu (also: Tsurphu, Tsurpu ; tib . : mtshur phu ; chin .: Chǔbù Sì楚 布 寺) is the residence of the Karmapa , the head of the Karma Kagyü School (Tibetan karma bka 'brgyud ) of Tibetan Buddhism . The monastery is located about 4,270 meters above sea level in the municipality of Gurum (Tib .: gu rong shang ; Chinese: Gǔróng Xiàng Kreis 荣 乡) in the district of Tölung Dechen (Tib. Stod lung bde chen shan ; Chinese Doilungdêqên Xian), round 70 km west of Lhasa in Tibet.

history

The founding monastery of the Karma-Kagyu is the monastery Karma Gön , which is located in the eastern Tibetan area, in the region of Lhathog (Tib .: lha thog ), about 100 km north of Qamdo . Towards the end of his life, the 1st Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa founded the Tshurphu Monastery in 1189, which became the main residence of the Karma Kagyu school in central Tibetan area. Until the middle of the 20th century the monastery had four faculties, which were named 1. Shiwa Dratshang (Tib .: zhi ba grva tshang ) 2. Tshurphu Dratshang (Tib .: mtshur phu grva tshang ) 3. Zurri Dratshang (Tib .: zur ri grva tshang ) and 4. Chökhang Gong Dratshang (Tib .: mchod khang gong grva tshang ). As the seat of the Karmapa lamas, the monastery was one of the most prominent religious sites in Tibet and became a monastery town with up to 1000 monks. The traditional Tshurphu calendar is also named after this monastery. The most important Buddha statue in the monastery was the Lhachen Dsamling Gyan (Tib .: lha chen 'dzam gling rgyan ), the "Great Statue (of Buddha Shakyamuni ) jewelry of the world". The statue was the largest one-piece statue in Tibet. It, like the monastery, was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution . The "true to original" reconstruction of the monastery began in 1980 under the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje . After the 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche, the 12th Tshurphu Gyeltshab Rinpoche, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Chinese government recognized Orgyen Thrinle Dorje (born 1985) as his rebirth (but not the 14th Shamarpa , see Karmapa conflict ) , he was enthroned as the 17th Karmapa in Tshurphu, where he lived until he went into exile in India in 2000.

The most important religious figures of the monastery, besides the Karmapa, were the Shamarpa and the Tshurphu Gyeltshab Rinpoche, also important Trülku lines. The latter resided in the Cökhang Gong Dratshang, the former founded the Yangpachen monastery in the 16th century at the upper end of the Tölung valley, which from then on became his main residence.

The monastery is on the list of monuments of the Tibet Autonomous Region .

literature

  • 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.
  • Hugh Edward Richardson: The Karma-pa Sect. A historical note. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1958: pp. 139-164 and JRAS 1959, pp. 1-18.
  • George N. Roerich: The Blue Annals . Calcutta 1949.
  • རིན་ ཆེན་ དཔལ་ བཟང །: ༄ ༅ ༎ མཚུར་ ཕུ་ དགོན་ གྱི་ དཀར་ཆག་ ཀུན་ གསལ་ མེ་ ལོང ༎. མི་རིགས་ དཔེ་ སྐྲུན་ ཁང ། / Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族 出版社, Beijing 1995 (Rin-chen-dpal-bzang, History of Tshurphu Monastery, Nationalities Publishing House, ISBN 7-105-02387-2 )

Remarks

  1. ↑ mtshur phu dgon (stod lung bde chen rdzong)  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tbrc.org  
  2. ↑ kalacakra.org: Tibetan calendar list - Tsurphu

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Tshurphu Monastery (alternative names of the lemma)
Tsurphu, Tsurpu, mtshur phu , 楚 布 寺, 粗布 寺, Chupu si 楚 浦 寺, 楚 普 寺, Tshurphu Gönpa

Coordinates: 29 ° 43 ′ 35 "  N , 90 ° 34 ′ 32"  E