Marlene Erschbamer is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Her research interests include the Barawa Kagyu tradition, Sikkim Studies, Tibetan Buddhism and the role of gender, and the intersection of religion, nature, and culture in the Tibetan Cultural Area.

Published January 2024

བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ ༠༤ སྐལ་བཟང་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

The Fourth Kagyu Tulku, Kelzang Choying Gyatso

early 19th cent.

AUTHOR

Marlene Erschbamer

Peer Reviewed

Tradition

Barawa Kagyu

Incarnation Line

Kagyu Tulku

Teachers

chos dbyings rdo rje

Historical Period

19th Century

Institution

Kagyu Gonsar

Bibliography

Erschbamer, Marlene. 2017. The 'Ba'-ra-ba bKa'-brgyud-pa: Historical and Contemporary Studies. Vienna: WSTB.

Ngawang Tenpai Gyeltsen. Short Biographical Sketches of Kagyu Tulkus of Kagyu Tshechogling Monastery. Unpublished typescript.