Derge Parkhang
Dege Parkhang ( Tib: sde dge par khang ) is a famous, traditional printing house in eastern Tibet, were prepared and stored in the printing blocks for block printing. The full name of the print is " Dege Parkhang Chödzö Chenmo " ( Tib: sde dge par khang chen chos mdzod mo; "Print House of Dege, great treasure of the Dharma "). Another important printing house in eastern Tibet was the printing house of the monastery Palpung.
Location and age
Dege Parkhang belongs to the monastery of Dege Gönchen Lhundrub Teng ( Tib: sde dge dgon chen grub lhun steng ) and is located as indicated in the name, Dege in today's circle of Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture. Dege Gönchen Lhundrub Teng was in the 15th century by the famous Thangtong Gyelpo ( Tib: thang stong rgyal po, 1361-1485 ) founded and served until 1909 as the seat of the kings of Dege. Established;: The printing press was in the first half of the 18th century by the king TENPA Tshering ( 1678-1738 bstan pa tshe ring- Tibetan). It consists of a multi-storey building which served especially as a warehouse for a large number of printing plates, one of which is usually a fee deductions could be made. Can be estimated from the printed catalog that Dege Parkhang once housed between four and five hundred thousand woodblocks. Today the number of printing blocks is given as 290,000.
Printed works
The offer Dege park slope comprised religious text collections, collected works of eminent masters of the Sakya school, works on Tibetan grammar and lexicography, historiographical texts such as biographies, works on the history of Buddhism and genealogies, works on the poetry, astronomy, calendar calculation, logic and medicine, which a large part of the genre of Tibetan literature was covered.
The Dege - edition of the Kanjur (Tib. bka '' gyur; " translation of the words ( of the Buddha) " ) and the Tanjur (Tib. bstan ' gyur; " translation of the textbooks " ) ( sa Buddhist canon ) is one of the most popular products the print shop.
Monument character
Since 1996, the Dege Printing Parkhang is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 4-183 ).