King Yeshe Ö
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Ye shes 'od
| PersonType | Category:Kings |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | King Yeshe Ö |
| MainNameTib | ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད |
| MainNameWylie | ye shes 'od |
| SortName | Ye shes 'od |
| bio | Ye shes 'od. (Yeshe Ö) (947-1024). A Tibetan king of the western region of Gu ge credited with inspiring a revival of Buddhism that initiated the latter dissemination (phyi dar) of Buddhism in Tibet. He decried the state of Tibetan Buddhist practice, especially the practice of Tantra, in a famous ordinance (bka' shog), complaining that people were engaging in murder and illicit sex under the guise of the tantric practices of "liberation" (grol) and "union" (sbyor). According to a famous story, Ye shes 'od was captured by a Gar log Turk chieftain while seeking to raise the capital necessary to invite Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna to Tibet. He then sacrificed his own life by commanding his grandnephew Byang chub 'od to use whatever gold had been accumulated not as a ransom for his own release, but rather as an offering to the Indian scholar. Atiśa was so moved by the king's act of selflessness that, despite his previous declinations, he agreed to make the journey north. Traditional accounts also suggest that Ye shes 'od sponsored a group of twenty-two young scholars to study Indian languages and tantric literature in Kashmir (see Kashmir-Gandhāra), of whom only two survived: the translators Rin chen bzang po and Rngog Legs pa'i Shes rab. Both the story of his noble death for the sake of Atiśa's invitation and the story of his sponsorship of Rin chen bzang po present difficulties in chronology, suggesting that they are embellishments. He is also credited with inspiring the establishment of numerous religious institutions, including Tho ling, Nyar ma, and Ta pho. He is also known as Lha bla ma (Lha Lama). (Source: "Ye shes 'od." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 1026–27. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) |
| YearBirth | 947 |
| YearDeath | 1024 |
| BDRC | https://library.bdrc.io/show/bdr:P8344? |
| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Lha-Lama-Yeshe-O/11056 |
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