Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima
Tibetan name |
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Tibetan script :
ཐུའ ུ་ བཀྭན་ བློ་ བཟང་ ཆོས་ ཀྱི་ ཉི་ མ །
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Wylie transliteration : thu'u bkwan blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma
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Chinese name |
Simplified :
土 观 • 罗桑 却 吉尼玛
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Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima (* 1737 ; † 1802 , Tibetan ཐུའ ུ་ བཀྭན་ བློ་ བཟང་ ཆོས་ ཀྱི་ ཉི་ མ །; Wylie thu'u bkwan blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma ) was a Tibetan historian and clergyman of the Gelugpa - School of Tibetan Buddhism . He comes from the Dorshi community in Amdo . - He was a "Tibetan" (Zangzu) . Under the name Thuken Hutuktu , he was regarded as the third personality in this series of incarnations in the Gönlung monastery.
Crystal mirror of the philosophical teaching systems
His work Crystal Mirror of Doctrinal Opinions | Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Teaching Systems (Grub mtha 'shel gyi me long) deals with the most important schools of India , both non-Buddhist and Buddhist , as well as the whole range of Tibetan traditions: Bon religion and Tibetan Buddhism with chapters the individual schools of Nyingma , Sakya , Kadam , Kagyu , Gelug , Zhibyed , Gcodyul and Jonang . It also describes the main Chinese traditions: Confucianism , Daoism and Buddhism as well as those of Mongolia , Khotans and Shambhalas .
He is also the author of a work on the history of the Gönlung monastery .
Works
- The crystal mirror of philosophical systems: A Tibetan study of Asian religious thought / Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima; translated by Geshé Lhundub Sopa with E. Ann Chavez and Roger R. Jackson; special contributions by Michael Sweet and Leonard Zwilling; edited by Roger R. Jackson. Boston: Wisdom Publications; [Montreal]: In association with the Institute of Tibetan Classics, 2009. (web)
See also
literature
- Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay, Eva M. Dargyay: The rise of esoteric Buddhism in Tibet.
- Geoffrey Samuel: Tantric revisionings: new understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian religion.
Web links
- treasuryoflives.org: Lobzang Chokyi Nyima - English
- blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma - English
Chinese web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinese 土 观 • 洛桑 却 吉尼玛 , Pinyin Tuguan Luosang Queji Nima
- ↑ Chin. Duoshi xiang 朵 什 乡
- ↑ Tuguan Luosang Queji Nima ( memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (gstianzhu.gov.cn) (found on October 25, 2009).
- ↑ Chinese 土 觀 呼圖克圖 / 土 观 呼图克图 , Pinyin Tuguan Hutuketu
- ^ Chin. Youning si
- ↑ Chinese Tuguan Zongjiao liupai jing shi 土 观 宗教 流派 镜 史
- ↑ Chinese Youning si zhi 佑宁 寺 志
Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima (alternative names of the lemma) |
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土 观 • 罗桑 却 吉尼玛; Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima |
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SURNAME | Thuken Lobsang Chökyi Nyima |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thuken Losang Chokyi Nyima; Lobsang Chögyi Nyima |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tibetan historian and clergyman |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1737 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1802 |