Rinchen Zangpo

Rinchen Zangpo (Tib. rin chen bzang po, * 958, † 1055 ) and Rinchen Zangpo Punch ( lo chen rin chen bzang po, " Rinchen Zangpo the Great Translator " ) was an influential monk of Tibetan Buddhism and a great translator of Buddhist scriptures which initiated the subsequent flowering of Buddhism in the Kingdom of Guge in Western Tibet.

He was sent to study abroad three times to Kashmir and India and translated many Buddhist scriptures. He was the great teacher of the first school of the New Translation ( gsar ma). Him the honorary title of Dorje Lopön was awarded.

Blue Annals According to Rinchen Zangpo mastered and explain all the main texts of the Prajnaparamita and tantra classes, in particular, he explained Yoga Tantra. That the tantric teachings were mostly more widespread during the later heyday of Tibetan Buddhism as during the earlier, Gö According Lotsawa is mainly due to this translator.

He had many students, including the chief disciple perforation Legpe Sherab ( lo chung legs pa'i shes rab ), narrowing Hing Tsöndru Gyeltshen ( gur shing brtson ' grus rgyal nang mtshan from mang ), Drapa Shönnu Sherab ( shes rab nu gzhon from Dra ( gra ) ) and Kyinor Jnana ( sKyi normal jny'ana ), as his "four spiritual sons " ( thugs sras ) were known.

He is said to have founded more than a hundred monasteries, especially in Western Tibet ( Ngari ) and Ladakh ( Mar yul ).

Under the Guge crown prince and chieftain Yeshe Ö (ye shes ' ​​od ) the Thoding Monastery ( Tholing Monastery ) was founded in Guge, the oldest monastery and religious center of the region of Ngari, whose abbot, he was later.

Rinchen Zangpo is said to have also founded the monastery in Manam Zanda ( Tsada ), Tabo Monastery in Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh and Khorchag Gönpa Burang.

Yeshe Pel from Kyithang ( Khyis -thang -pa Ye- shes- dpal ) in Guge wrote his biography.