Shangton Tenpa Gyatso
| PersonType | Category:Authors of Tibetan Works |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | Shangton Tenpa Gyatso |
| MainNameTib | ཞང་སྟོན་བསྟན་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ |
| MainNameWylie | zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho |
| bio | Shangton Tenpa Gyatso was born in Tseshung (rtse gzhung) in 1825. His father's name was Nyingkar bum and his mother was Tsering Drolma. He entered Bkra-shis-'khyil monastery in 1837. He later took the Tshogs-bsags rab-'byams-pa degree in 1845. He went to Pe-cin to become the yongs 'dzin of the Thu'u-bkwan in 1854. His collected works (gsung 'bum) comprise four volumes (79 sections). His Collected Works can be found here. (Adapted from Source Sep 1 2020)
The Geluk polymath Shangton Tenpa Gyatso was "someone who clearly upheld his own sect's theories and practices (drubta) and yet did not oppose, look down upon, or insult other sects," thus personifying this contemporary definition of rimé. . . . Born into a family of humble means, Shangton eventually joined the ranks of prominent Geluk monastic literati while also becoming an accomplished severance (chö) practitioner. Shangton was born in the village of Khotse, one of the spiritual communities surrounding the large monastic complex of Labrang Tashikhyil in Amdo. At age seven, he took his initiate vows and received the name Konchok Thapkhe—a name that would stay with him long after his death, most commonly in the form Akhu Thapkhe ("Monk Thapkhe"). At age thirteen, he took up study at Labrang Tashikhyil, where he quickly excelled. He received an elite education in Buddhist dialectics from the foremost nineteenth-century luminaries of Labrang, but he never studied at any of the "three great seats of learning" in Lhasa (Drepung, Sera, and Ganden). His choice reflected a growing trend among accomplished Geluk scholars to study exclusively in Amdo, a pattern that continued into the twentieth century, as exemplified by some
of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's teachers. At age twenty-one, Shangton took full monastic vows and eventually earned the scholastic degrees of rabjampa and kachuwa. His colleagues repeatedly recognized Shangton for his erudition, appointing him as tutor to important incarnate lamas and Geluk hierarchs. While Shangton joined the ranks of the elite Geluk literati in Amdo, he also remained a devout and open-minded practitioner. For example, he received severance instructions at age sixty-five from a female practitioner named Gungru Khandroma. He later authored her biography, making public his reverence for her. (Adapted from "Dictums for Developing Virtue" by Gedun Rabsal and Nicole Willock, in A Gathering of Brilliant Moons, 84) |
| YearBirth | 1825 |
| YearDeath | 1897 |
| BornIn | Tseshung |
| PersonalAffiliation | Father: snying dkar 'bum; Mother: tshe ring sgrol ma |
| StudentOf | shes rab rgya mtsho · thub bstan 'jigs med rgya mtsho · dkon mchog rgyal mtshan · dkon mchog rgya mtsho · blo gsal rgya mtsho · bstan 'dzin |
| TeacherOf | dge 'dun bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho · skal bzang thub bstan dbang phyug · 'jigs med 'phrin las rgya mtsho · blo bzang dbang phyug bshad sgrub rgya mtsho · 'jigs med blo gros rgya mtsho |
| BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P257 |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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