The Treasury of Lives

The Ninety-second Ganden Tripa, Tubten Nyinje (dga ldan khri pa 92 thub bstan nyin byed) was born in Tsang region, some time in the mid-eighteenth century. Nothing is known about his parents, childhood, or ordinations.

In his youth Tubten Nyinje matriculated in the Tsangpa House of Loseling College of the Drepung Monastic University ('bras spungs blo gsal gling gi gtsang pa khang tshan). There he began his education with memorizing daily prayers, root-verses of the traditional philosophical and related texts, after which he studied logic and epistemology, followed by the major texts of Abhisamayālaṃkāra, Madhyamaka, Abhidharmakośa, Pramāṇavārttika, and Vinaya, the five major subjects of Geshe Lharampa (dge bshes lha ram pa) course of the Geluk monastic curriculum. He took the traditional examination in the annual Great Prayer Festival of Lhasa (Monlam Chenmo) and passed with rank and obtained the formal title of Geshe Lharampa, the highest rank of a Geluk scholar.

Tubten Nyinje next enrolled in Gyume College in Lhasa. There he studied tantric scriptures and received training in the rites and rituals according to the Gyuto system. He stood for the traditional grand debate-examination and attained the title of Ngakrampa (sngags rams pa), Master in Tantra, after which he was appointed to disciplinarian (dge bskos), chant leader / head of education (bla ma dbu mdzad) followed by abbot of Gyume. Subsequently he was enthroned as Jangtse Choje (byang rtse chos rje) at Ganden Jangtse College (dga' ldan byang rtse grwa tshang), placing him in line to the Golden Throne of Ganden.

In 1933, the water-bird in the sixteenth sexagenary cycle, Tubten Nyinje ascended to the Golden Throne as the Ninety-second Ganden Tripa. About two months after his enthronement, while giving teaching at Meru (rme ru) he passed into nirvana. Yeshe Wangden (ye she dbang ldan) succeeded him to the Golden Throne as the Ninety-third Ganden Tripa.