The Treasury of Lives

ཕྱག་ཚ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་ལྔ་པ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་བློ་གྲོས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ནི་ཀཿཐོག་དགོན་དུ་ཁྲི་སར་བཀོད་ཅིང་། དགེ་རྩེ་བཀྲ་ལེགས་དགོན་དུ་གདན་སར་མཛད།




The Fifth Chaktsa Tulku, Tubten Lodro Chokyi Gyeltsen (phyag tsha 05 thub bstan blo gros chos kyi rgyal mtshan) was born near Zomtang in Golok (’go log 'dzom thang). He was identified as the Fourth Chaktsa Tulku, Kunzang Pema Trinle (phyag tsha 04, kun bzang pad+ma phrin las, d.u.). He was based at Getse Dralek Monastery (dge rtse bkra legs dgon) and passed away around the turn of the twenty-first century.

Samten Chhosphel earned his PhD from CIHTS in India where he served as the head of Publication Dept. for 26 years. He has a Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, Boston. Currently he is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, and Language Associate in Columbia University, NY.

Published December 2011

དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ཡིག་ཆ་ཁག།