Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Donyo Nyinje
Tai Situpa, 12th
| PersonType | Category:Classical Tibetan Authors |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Donyo Nyinje |
| MainNameTib | པདྨ་དོན་ཡོད་ཉིན་བྱེད་ |
| MainNameWylie | pad+ma don yod nyin byed |
| AltNamesTib | ཏའི་སི་ཏུ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ |
| AltNamesWylie | ta'i si tu bcu gnyis pa |
| AltNamesOther | Tai Situpa, 12th |
| bio | The current, 12th Tai Situpa, Pema Tönyö Nyinje, was born in a farming family named Liyultsang in 1954 in the village of Palmey, which is part of Palyul (Wylie: dpal yul) or Baiyü County, Sichuan, China that was formerly part of the Kingdom of Derge. The Palpung Thupten Chokhorling monastery in Derge was founded by the 8th Tai Situpa "Situ Panchen" in 1727, where presently all the traditional Buddhist teachings are taught to the monks and has preserved traditional printing centre for the Buddhist teaching scrolls.
At the age of twenty-two, the 12th Tai Situpa founded his own new monastic seat, Palpung Sherabling Monastery, Himachal Pradesh, in Northeast India providing traditional Buddhist teachings, astronomy, traditional Tibetan medicine curriculum, higher Tibetan Buddhist university teaching (Shedra), primary teachings to young students, sports facility for students for physical fitness, traditional Tibetan herbs medicine garden, medical clinic , old age home and has accommodations for students. Palpung Sherabling Monastery currently has approximately 1000 monks; 250 are enrolled in the monastic university curriculum on the premises. Palpung Yeshe Rabgyeling Nun Monastery is located near the city of Manali, in the Bunthar town has about 200 nuns. The Monastery also offers the traditional Kagyu three-year retreat for both monks and nuns on the compound. The Palpung congregation[10] consists of monasteries and temples throughout some Chinese and Tibetan districts. Palpung Congregation also has branch institutions in Europe, USA, Canada Oceania and Asia. The 12th Tai Situpa traveled widely, making his first visit to the West in 1981 to Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre in Scotland. The 12th Tai Situpa was instrumental in recognizing Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, whom he enthroned at the Tsurphu Monastery the traditional ancient seat of the Karmapa outside Lhasa in August 1992. He also recognized Choseng Trungpa, born on February 6, 1989 in Chamdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region, as the reincarnation of Chögyam Trungpa.([Source accessed April 13, 2020]) |
| YearBirth | 1954 |
| TibDateGender | Male |
| TibDateElement | Wood |
| TibDateAnimal | Horse |
| TibDateRabjung | 16 |
| ReligiousAffiliation | Karma Kagyu |
| StudentOf | Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpai Dorje |
| TeacherOf | The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje |
| BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P855 |
| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Twelfth-Tai-Situ-Pema-Donyo-Nyinje/11274 |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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