Duldzin Drakpa Gyaltsen is perhaps one of the more notable previous lives of Dorje Shugden. In this incarnation, he is said to have made the promise to arise as a Dharma Protector to protect the precious teachings of his teacher Lama Tsongkhapa, thus laying the foundation for Dorje Shugden to manifest later, in another...
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Recently I was going through the Himalayan Art Resources website when I stumbled across their Dorje Shugden section featuring art from all traditions and schools of Buddhism...
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Duldzin Drakpa Gyeltsen was born in Drangyul, in U in 1374. A Kadampa monk, he was a main disciple of Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa and Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen...
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During the 2015 Gelug Conference, the Dalai Lama claimed that Dharma Protector Setrap had given mistaken prophecies to Dagyab Rinpoche as well as monks from Minyak Khangtsen of Drepung Loseling Monastery...
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The Third Trijang, Lobzang Yeshe Tendzin Gyatso was born on March 10, 1901, in Gungtang. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Second Trijang, Lobzang Tsultrim Pelden...
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The Fourth Takpu, Pema Vajra Jampel Tenpai Ngodrub, most commonly known as Takpu Dorje Chang, was born in 1876 in Naksho, Kham...
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When the Twelfth Dalai Lama, Trinle Gyatso died at the young age of twenty in 1875, his face is said to have turned toward the south-east, which was taken as a sign...
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Zong Lobzang Tsondru was born in Mangsang, Kham, in 1905. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Geluk master Zongtrul Tenpa Chopel...
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Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa was born in the Tsongkha region of Amdo in 1357. Among the numerous miraculous incidents believed to have taken place...
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འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཆོས་རྗེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། b.1379 – d.1449 Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: Lhasa ལྷ་ས། Historical Period: 14th Century ༡༤ དུས་རབས། / 15th Century ༡༥ དུས་རབས། Institution: Ganden དགའ་ལྡན་།; Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Sangpu Neutok གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག། Offices Held: First Throne Holder of Drepung Monastery Name Variants: Tashi Pelden བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན། Jamyang Choje Tashi Pelden (‘jam dbyangs chos rje bkra shis ldan) was born in 1379, the earth-sheep year in the sixth sexagenary cycle, at Samye (bsam yas). His father is k...
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Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang was born in Tsang in 1385. His name was given to him when he took novice ordination at the age of seven from Khenchen Sengge Gyeltsen...
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Gyeltsab Darma Rinchen was born in either 1362 or 1364, in a place called Rinang, in Nyangto, Tsang. At the age of ten he met Nenyingpa Rinchen Gyeltsen...
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Kelzang Gyatso was born in the region of Litang in Kham. His birth was said to have been accompanied by wonders, including the infant’s utterance of marvelous words...
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The 69th Ganden Tripa, Jangchub Chopel was born in Litang in Kham in 1756. At the age of 12, his crown-hair was cut by Lama Dongnak of Sampel Ling Monastery...
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The Twenty-eighth Ganden Tripa, Gendun Gyeltsen was born at Lumpa Shar in Lhasa in 1532. He was admitted to Sera Monastic University at the young age...
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The Twenty-sixth Ganden Tripa, Damcho Pelbar was born at Khangmar Shar in Ne, Tsang in 1523. He was admitted at young age to Ne Chode where he became a monk...
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The Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo was born in 1878 in Yutok Shar. At the age of two his mother took him to see the Eighty-first Ganden Trichen, Ngawang Norbu...
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The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso was born in the territory of Mon Tawang in March 1683. The search for the reincarnation of the Fifth Dalai Lama was conducted by the Regent Sanggye Gyatso...
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The Twentieth Ganden Tripa, Chodrak Zangpo was born in Takpu, Uto in 1493. He was admitted at a young age in the Takpu Chode where he became a monk...
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The Eighty-first Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Norbu was born in Zungchu in Amdo. He was later said to be an emanation of Mahasiddha Sarahapa, one of the mahasiddhas of the eighth century in India...
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