Sustainable Travel – Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
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Tashilhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་), founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama, is a historic and culturally important monastery next to Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was sacked when the Gurkhas invaded Tibet and captured Shigatse in 1791 before a combined Tibetan and Chinese army drove them back as far as the outskirts of Kathmandu, when they were forced to agree to keep the peace in future, pay tribute every five years, and return what they had looted from Tashilhunpo. The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelukpa tradition. The „Tashi“ or Panchen Lama had temporal power over three small districts, though not over the town of Shigatse itself, which was administered by a dzongpön (prefect) appointed from Lhasa.
Located on a hill in the center of the city, the full name in Tibetan of the monastery means: „all fortune and happiness gathered here“ or „heap of glory“. Read More: > HERE <
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is seat to the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet. In 1447 the Monastery was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in Shigatse, Tibet’s second largest city. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet and was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the Gelugpa, or Yellow Hat tradition. It has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy and Tantra.
During the lifetime of the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, there were more than 3,000 monks in the Monastery and by 1959 there were 5,000, with another 2,000 monks affiliated to the monastery living outside Tibet. The Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966-80 both wreaked destruction on Tibet’s monastic institutions, which lost many precious scriptures, statues and images. Many monks were killed or imprisoned and only 250 were able to follow the Dalai Lama into exile.
www.tibettours.com , In 1972, by the order of the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tashilhunpo Monastery was re-established in Karnataka, the southern state of India. From early1980’s, entry to the general public has been allowed, although one cannot visit all the parts of the monastery, but still Tashilhunpo Monastery has become an important tourist destination in Tibet.
Tibet Reiseführer – Das Tashilhunpo-Kloster, der Sitz der Panchen Lamas aller Generationen. Das Tashilhunpo-Kloster gehört zu den unter staatlichen Denkmalschutz stehenden bedeutenden Kulturstätten Chinas. Es liegt am südlichen Fuß des Berges Nyimarie im Westen der Stadt Xigaze. Es ist das größte Kloster der gelug-Sekte in Westtibet und der Hauptort der religiösen und politischen Angelegenheiten der Panchen Lamas aller Generationen. Das Tashilhunpo-Kloster und die oben genannten drei Klöster Lhasas sind die vier berühmtesten Klöster Tibets.
Tashilhunpo bedeutet auf tibetisch „Glückliches Sumera“. Das Kloster wurde am Berghang gebaut und umfasst Hauptsutrahallen, die Qamba-Buddha-halle, die Gyina Lhakang-Halle, Gedenkhallen mit Stupas für die Panchen Lamas fünf bis neun, die Gedenkhalle Shesong Namgyi mit dem Stupa für den zehnten Panchen Lama, die Terrasse zum Ausrollen großer Buddhabilder sowie Arbeitszimmer früherer Panchen Lamas. Es gibt außerdem noch vier Zhacangs (buddhistische Kollegien), 64 Dörfer mit Wohnhäusern, in denen die Mönche, nach Herkunftsorten zusammengefasst, untergebracht waren, und 56 Gebetshallen. Read More: > www.china-guide.de <
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