Yumbulagang
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Yumbulagang or Yumbu Lhakhang is an antique fort in the district of Nêdong in the vicinity of Zêtang in the county Shannan the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. A legende counts Yumbulagang as the first building in Tibet.
According to a legende of followers of the Bön-Religion, Yumbulagang was erected in the second century BC for the first tibetan king Nyatri Tsenpo, descended from the sky. During the reign of the 28th king Lha Thothori Nyantsen in the fifth century a golden Stupa, a jewel (and/or a form to the manufacture of dough-Stupas)[1] and a Sutra, that no one could read, felt from the sky on the roof of the building and should have called a voice of the sky: "in five generations one should come, that understands its meaning!"[2] Later, Yumbulagang became the summer palace of the 33rd king Songtsen Gampo and princess Wencheng. After Songtsen Gampo had transferred his seat to Lhasa, Yumbulagang became a Chapel and under the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, a monastery of the Gelugpa-school.
The Yumbulagang was heavily damaged during the Cultural revolution and was reconstructed in the '1980's .
[edit] Books
- ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho: bod kyi deb ther dpyid kyi rgyal mo’i glu dbyangs. Kapitel 2 und 3. Übersetzung von Zahiruddin Ahmad ins Englische: A History of Tibet by the Fifth Dalai Lama of Tibet (Bloomington, Indiana University 1995), ISBN 0-933070-32-2.
- nor brang o rgyan: gangs can yul gyi sa la spyod pa’i mtho ris kyi rgyal byon gtso bor brjod pa’i deb ther rdzogs ldan gzhon nu’i dga' ston dpyid kyi rgyal mo’i glu dyangs-kyi ’grel pa yid kyi dga’ ston (Beijing, mi rigs dpe skrun khang / Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族出版社 1993), ISBN 0-933070-32-2.
[edit] External links
- Yum bu bla sgang (Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library)
[edit] Reference
- ^ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche: The Eight Manifestations of Guru Padmasambhva (ratna.info)
- ^ Eva M. Dargyay: The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet (Delhi, Motinal Banarsidass 1979), ISBN 81-208-1577-7, S. 4.
