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Tsurphu Monastery

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Tsurphu Monastery (or Tölung Tsurphu ("Tsurphu of Tölong") is a gompa which serves as the traditional seat of the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Gurum in Doilungdêqên District, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, from Lhasa. The monastery is about above sea level. It was built in the middle of the valley facing south with high mountains surrounding the complex. Tsurphu is a complex with walls up to thick. The gompa, the traditional seat of the Karmapa lamas, is about up the Dowo Lung Valley on the north side of the river. The original walls of the main building were up to 4 meters thick and 300 meters on each side. The monks' residences were on the eastern side. [1]

49 relations: Architecture in Tibet, Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama, Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, Doilungdêqên District, Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, Dzogchen, Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, Goshir Gyaltsab, Index of Buddhism-related articles, Karma Chagme, Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama, Karma Thinley Rinpoche, Karmapa, Karmapa controversy, Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama, Khandro Rinpoche, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Lama Gyurme, Leten, Lhasa (prefecture-level city), List of Buddhist architecture in China, List of Buddhist temples, List of Tibetan monasteries, List of Tibetan writers, Nangqên County, Nenang Monastery, Nenang Pawo, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Palpung Monastery, Pema Tönyö Nyinje, Ralang Monastery, Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Rangtong-Shentong, Rumtek Monastery, Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty, Situ Panchen, Sonam Rapten, Tai Situpa, Temple for Peace, Terris Nguyen Temple, Tibetan culture, Tibetan Monasticism, Trinley Thaye Dorje, Urgyen Tsomo, Yangpachen Monastery, Yeshe Dorje, 11th Karmapa, Yongle Emperor.

Architecture in Tibet

Architecture in Tibet contains Chinese and Indian influences but has many unique features brought about by its adaptation to the cold, generally arid, high-altitude climate of the Tibetan plateau.

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Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama

Düsum Khyenpa (1110–1193) was the 1st Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama

Deshin Shekpa (1384–1415), also Deshin Shegpa, Dezhin Shekpa and Dezhin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Doilungdêqên District

Doilungdêqên District is a district in Lhasa, Tibet, north-west of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet.

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Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen

Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen (1292–1361), known simply as Dölpopa, a Tibetan Buddhist master known as "The Buddha from Dölpo," a region in modern Nepal, who was the principal exponent of the shentong teachings, and an influential member of the Jonang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Dzogchen

Dzogchen or "Great Perfection", Sanskrit: अतियोग, is a tradition of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism aimed at discovering and continuing in the natural primordial state of being.

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Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (c. 1893 – 1959) was a Tibetan lama, a master of many lineages, and a teacher of many of the major figures in 20th-century Tibetan Buddhism.

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Goshir Gyaltsab

Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche is a leading incarnate lama (tulku) in the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Index of Buddhism-related articles

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Karma Chagme

The name Karma Chagme refers to a 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist (Vajrayāna) lama and to the tülku (reincarnate lama) lineage which he initiated.

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Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama

Karma Pakshi (1204/6–1283) was the 2nd Gyalwa Karmapa.

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Karma Thinley Rinpoche

Karma Thinley Rinpoche, (b. 1931) is an important master of the Kagyu Mahamudra, Sakya Lamdré and Chod traditions of Tibetan Buddhism active in the west.

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Karmapa

The Karmapa (honorific title His Holiness the Gyalwa (རྒྱལ་བ་, Victorious One) Karmapa, more formally as Gyalwang (རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, King of Victorious Ones) Karmapa, and informally as the Karmapa Lama) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyu (བཀའ་བརྒྱུད), itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Karmapa controversy

The recognition of the Seventeenth Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, has been the subject of controversy.

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Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama

Khakhyap Dorjé, 15th Karmapa Lama (1871–1922 or 1870–1921) was born in Sheikor village in Tsang, Tibet.

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Khandro Rinpoche

Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche (birth name Tsering Paldrön; born August 19, 1967) is a lama in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

The Venerable Khenpo Karma Tharchin Rinpoche (b. 3 April 1924), widely known by his abbreviated name Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, is a senior lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche is a prominent scholar yogi in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Lama Gyurme

Lama Gyurme (born in 1948), or Lama Gyourmé, is a Buddhist Bhutanese Lama and musician.

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Leten

Leten is a tiny village and valley of Tibet, China.

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Lhasa (prefecture-level city)

Lhasa is a prefecture-level city, formerly a prefecture until 7 January 1960, one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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List of Buddhist architecture in China

Buddhist temples, monasteries, pagodas, grottoes, archaeological sites and colossal statues in China.

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List of Buddhist temples

This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location.

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List of Tibetan monasteries

This list of Tibetan monasteries is a listing of historical and contemporary monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism within the ethno-cultural Tibet itself and elsewhere.

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List of Tibetan writers

This is a chronological list of important Tibetan writers.

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Nangqên County

Nangqên County, or Nangchen, was formerly one of Kham region's five independent kingdoms and now administered by the CCP as a county of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southernmost Qinghai province, China.

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Nenang Monastery

Nénang Monastery is a historical gompa for Buddhist monks and nuns belonging to Sera Monastery.

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Nenang Pawo

Nenang Pawo is one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Ogyen Trinley Dorje (born June 26, 1985), also written Urgyen Trinley Dorje (is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa Lama. The Karmapa is head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Palpung Monastery

Palpung Monastery is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the name of the Tai Situ's monastic seat in Derge, Kham (modern Sichuan).

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Pema Tönyö Nyinje

Pema Dönyö Nyinje, born 1954 is the 12th Tai Situpa, a tulku in Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the leading figures of the Karma Kagyu school.

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Ralang Monastery

New Ralang Monastery or Ralong Palchen Choling is a Buddhist monastery of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism in southern Sikkim, northeastern India.

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Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama

Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339) was the third Karmapa (head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyu) and an important figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism, who helped to spread Buddha-nature teachings in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) (Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i rdo rje) was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Rangtong-Shentong

Rangtong and shentong are two distinctive views on emptiness (sunyata) and the two truths doctrine within Tibetan Buddhism.

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Rumtek Monastery

Rumtek Monastery, also called the Dharmachakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok.

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Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming dynasty

The exact nature of relations between Tibet and the Ming dynasty of China (1368–1644) is unclear.

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Situ Panchen

Situ Panchen (full name Situ Panchen Chögyi Jungney) (1700–1774), also known as the 8th Tai Situ Rinpoche, was an influential Tibetan painter, writer and medical innovator as well as a notable figure in the histories of Karma Kagyu and the Kingdom of Dêgê, where he served as senior court chaplain.

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Sonam Rapten

Sönam Rapten (bsod nams rab brtan) (1595–1658), initially known as Gyalé Chödze and later on as Sönam Chöpel, was born in the Tholung valley in the Central Tibetan province of Ü. He started off as a monk-administrator (las sne, lené) of the Ganden Phodrang, the early Dalai Lamas' residence at Drepung Monastery, outside Lhasa, Tibet.

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Tai Situpa

Tai Situpa (from or "Great Preceptor") is one of the oldest lineages of tulkus (reincarnated lamas) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism According to tradition, the Tai Situpa is an emanation of Maitreya, the bodhisattva who will become the next Buddha and who has been incarnated as numerous Indian and Tibetan yogis since the time of the historical Buddha.

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Temple for Peace

The Temple for Peace (French: Temple pour la Paix) is a construction project of the congregation Vajradhara-Ling in Normandy to promote world peace.

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Terris Nguyen Temple

Terris Nguyen Temple, born in California 1944, studied the art of Tibetan Thangka painting in Nepal during the years 1966 to 1975.

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Tibetan culture

Tibet developed a distinct culture due to its geographic and climatic conditions.

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Tibetan Monasticism

Although there were many householder-yogis in Tibet, monasticism was the foundation of Buddhism in Tibet.

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Trinley Thaye Dorje

Trinley Thaye Dorje (born 6 May 1983 in Lhasa) is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.

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Urgyen Tsomo

Urgyen Tsomo (1897–1961) was a prominent Tibetan Buddhist female master who was known as the Great Dakini of Tsurphu (Tsurpu Khandro Chenmo).

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Yangpachen Monastery

Yangpachen Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yangpachen (Tibetan: yangs pa can; Thub btsan yangs pa can), in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet.

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Yeshe Dorje, 11th Karmapa

Yeshe Dorje (1676–1702) was the eleventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Yongle Emperor

The Yongle Emperor (Yung-lo in Wade–Giles; 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424) — personal name Zhu Di (WG: Chu Ti) — was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurphu_Monastery

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