Zaya Pandita

Zaya Pandita Nam- rgya - mtsho - mkha'i (* 1599, † 1662) was a high priest of the Tibeto- Mongolian Buddhism and notable scholar of the Oiratenstammes Choschuten ( Khoshuud ). He is the inventor of a Mongolian script. He was a great religious leaders of the Oirat -Mongolian Lamaism and its earlier activist.

Life

Zaya Pandita was the 5th son ( an adopted son ) of Choschutenfürsten Baibagas. He worked in western Mongolia for the spread of Tibetan Buddhism. Baibagas Khan had accepted and decided that one of his sons will monk this religion in the early 17th century. Zaya Pandita went to Lhasa in 1615, where he studied under the 4th Panchen Lama Buddhism. 1638 he left Tibet to preach in Mongolia. He also preached at the Torgot. In 1648 he created on the basis of the traditional Mongolian script uiguro - oiratische the font or plain text or clear script ( Mongolian: Тодо бичиг todo bitschig ) for the case of the Mongolian. 1650-1662 he wrote his translations of 172 Buddhist works in this document down. He died in 1662 on his way to Tibet.

In the biography of Zaya Pandita the following instructions to his monks and disciples for their missionary activity has been handed down:

"Who, worshiped by the people that you see Ongghot, which burns the Ongghot and take him horses and sheep from. From those that have allowed to hold incense shamans, take horses. The shamans but smokes with dog feces. "

Literature / Sources

  • Biography in Corpus Scriptorum Mongolorum ( mongol. )
  • Zhaqi Siqin ( Secen Jagcid )札奇斯钦: Menggu yu Xizang lishi guanxi zhi yanjiu蒙古 与 西藏 历史 关系 之 研究( Historical relations between Mongols and Tibetans ). Taibei: Zhengzhong Shuju Yinhang 1978
  • Klaus Sagaster, "The History of Buddhism among the Mongols " ( in the section on dissemination of the Gelug school under various Mongol tribes ), in: Ann Heirman, Stephan Peter Bumbacher: The spread of Buddhism, BTE Part 8, Volume 16, Leiden 2007, pp. 379 ff
  • G. Tucci & W. Heissig: The religions of Tibet and Mongolia. Stuttgart 1970 ( The religions of mankind, Vol 20)
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