Tseten Zhabdrung, 6th
Tseten Zhabdrung, 6th on the DRL
| Wylie | tshe tan zhabs drung 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros |
|---|---|
| English Phonetics | Tseten Zhabdrung, 6th |
| Sort Name | Tseten Zhabdrung, 6th |
- ཨཱ་ལགས་ཚེ་ཏན་ཞབས་དྲུང་འཇིགས་མེད་རིགས་པའི་བློ་གྲོས་
- ཚེ་ཏན་ཞབས་དྲུང་
- འཇིགས་མེད་རིགས་པའི་བློ་གྲོས་
- ཞབས་དྲུང་དྲུག་པ་
- A lags tshe tan zhabs drung 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros
- tshe tan zhabs drung
- 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros
- tshe tan zhabs drung 06 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros
- Alak Tseten Zhabdrung Jigme Rigpai Lodro
- Alak Tseten
- Jigme Rigpai Lodro
- The Sixth Tseten Zhabdrung
- Jigme Rigpay Lodro
- Tseten Shabdrung
- Sixth Tsten Zhabdrung
- Tshe tan Zhabs drung
| Birth: | 1910/05/31 |
|---|---|
| Death: | 1985 |
| Place of birth: | Yadzi (ya rdzi), is more commonly known today by its Chinese name, Jishi Town (Jishi zhen 积石镇) in today's Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province. |
Tibetan calendar dates
| Day | 22 |
|---|---|
| Month | 4 |
| Gender | |
| Element | Iron |
| Animal | Dog |
| Rab Jyung | 15 |
- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Tak Monastery
- Secondary Affiliation
- sgar ba kha drug
- Religious Affiliation
- Geluk
- Religious Affiliation
- Geluk
Biographical Information
Jigme Rigpai Lodro was one of the great Tibetan polymaths of the twentieth century, writing extensively on Tibetan history, language, astronomy and Buddhism. By dint of his historical life and dedication to Tibetan scholarship, he acted as a conduit between “traditional” and “modern” Tibet. He is most famous for his role as one of the so-called Three Great Scholars after the Cultural Revolution. This epithet is drawn from tenth century Tibetan history when the first Three Great Scholars brought the Dharma to Eastern Tibet due to Langdarma’s persecution of Buddhism in central Tibet. Thus this title indicates how Alak Zhabdrung and the other two Great Scholars, Dungkar Lobzang Trinle and Muge Samten, contributed significantly to the revival of Tibetan scholarship, both at monasteries and secular institutions, following a near twenty-year vacuum due to various political campaigns. Many of today’s great Tibetologists both in the PRC and abroad studied with one of these Three Great Scholars. (Treasury of Lives, Source Accessed January 27, 2022)
The 6th Tseten Zhabdrung was a student of Giteng Lobzang Pelden (sgis steng blo bzang dpal ldan, 1880/1-1944), also known as Yongdzin Paṇḍita (yongs 'dzin paNDi ta) and Jigme Damcho Gyatso ('jigs med dam chos rgya mtsho), a.k.a. Marnang Dorjechang (mar nang rdo rje 'chang, 1898-1946).
Key Works:
- སྙན་ངག་སྤྱི་དོན་ - snyan ngag spyi don (Snyan ngag me long gi spyi don sdeb legs rig paʼi ʼchar sgo).
- First Edition: Zi-ling : Mtsho-sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2001.
- Second Edition: Lan-chou : Kan-suʼu mi dmangs dpe skrun khang : Kan-suʼu Zhing-chen Zhin-hwa dpe khang gis bkram, 2005. - Famous exegesis on the general meaning of the Kāvyadarśa of Daṇḍin, 7th cent. - General Summary of Poetics being translated by Nicole Willock and Gendun Rabsal.
- Mkhas dbang tshe tan zhabs drung 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros kyi gsung rtsom. Xining: Mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang.
- Tshe tan zhabs drung rje btsun 'jigs med rigs pa'i blo gros mchog gi gsung 'bum. Beijing: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2007.
Read the detailed biography at Treasury of Lives...
Other Biographical info:
1978-1980s - Professor at Northwest Minorities University in Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
- BDRC Link (P1646)
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1646
- Treasury of Lives Link
- https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Jigme-Rigpai-Lodro/2948
- Wiki Pages