Kundeling Monastery

Kündeling ( Tib. kun bde gling; Chinese Gongdelin功 德林;. Engl Kundeling Monastery ) is a monastery of the Gelugpa school ( Yellow Hat ) of Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa. It is located in the homonymous street district Gündêling the city Chengguan District, the downtown area of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

The monastery is the home of Jedrung Rinpoche (Tib. rin po che rJe drung ), one of the four major Kuutuktus Qamdos in the Qing Dynasty and is one of four regency Temple ( gling- bzhi ) Lhasa. The head of the monastery is as Kündeling Tatshag Jedrung Rinpoche ( rje drung kun gling rin po rta tshag or che kun gling rje drung ho rta tshag thog thu ) are known, which had existed since the founding of the monastery thirteen.

The monastery was founded in 1794 by the Qing for their protégé Lobsang Yeshe Tenpai Gonpo ( 1760-1810 ) on the occasion of the celebration of their victory over the Gurkhas. This high religious dignitaries in 1789, after he was brought to the Manchu court in Beijing, because of the Gurkha crisis for the Manchu emperors " seal of preserving Lama " (Chinese Zhangyin lama掌印 喇嘛) appointed to the 8th Dalai Lama (1758-1804) to help. He helped strengthen China's influence on Tibet. Then he received the one biliketu nuomen han (Chinese毕 理 克图诺 们 汗of mongol. Biligtü nom -un qan ), in 1792 the title Huitong chanshi (慧 通 禅师). After the death of the Dalai Lama in 1804, he became regent (Ch shezheng摄政), a post he held until 1810.

List of Rinpoche

The 13th Kundeling Tatsak Rinpoche

Lobsang Yeshe Jampel Gyatsho (* 1959 in Kolkata ) is the current Kundeling Tatsak Rinpoche. Its recognition is controversial, since it is not officially recognized by the Dalai Lama. Tenzin Chokyi Gyeltsen (* 1983 in Lhasa ), however, was in 1993 officially recognized by the Dalai Lama. He studied at the moment in Drepung Monastery in Gomang Mundgod, India.

Dorje Shugden Controversy

The current Rinpoche of customer Ling Monastery, who lives in South India Lobsang Yeshe, has filed a lawsuit against the Dalai Lama at the Indian High Court because of religious persecution. The lawyer Shree Sanjay Jain says:

"It is a case of religious discrimination Certainly in the sense did if within your sect of religion you say thatthis Particular deity ought not to be worshiped, and Those persons who are willing to worship him you are trying to excommunicate them from the main stream of Buddhism, then it is discrimination of the worst kind ( " It is certainly a case of religious discrimination, in the sense when they say within their religious sect that this specific deity is not to be worshiped, and an attempt is made to persons that they have the desire to worship, to excommunicate from the main stream of Buddhism, then this is discrimination of the worst kind " ) "

The Tibetan government in exile Lobsang Yeshe accused to be paid by the Chinese, noting that he had just visited China twice. He denies, however, to work for the Chinese, but confirmed that he had Chinese friends and that he was " for what they are doing in Tibet " given the circumstances that serve them, the Dalai Lama, the Chinese adore; he claims, when the Tibetan Dorje Shugden supporters had to live under the Dalai Lama in Tibet, they would probably crucified ( "we would have been crucified Possibly ").