The Treasury of Lives

བློ་བཟང་ཐུབ་བསྟན་ལུང་རྟོགས་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ནི་ཨ་མདོ་སྟོང་འཁོར་དགའ་ལྡན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་དགོན་པའི་སྟོང་འཁོར་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ཡིན། ཁོང་སྟོང་འཁོར་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་བློ་བཟང་འཇིགས་མེད་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ཡང་སྲིད་དུ་ངོས་འཛིན་བྱས།




Lobzang Tubten Lungtok Shedrub Gyatso was the Twelfth Tongkhor (stong 'khor 12 blo bzang thub bstan lung rtogs bshad sgrub rgya mtsho) of the line based at Tongkhor Ganden Chokhor Ling (stong 'khor dgon dga' ldan chos 'khor gling), which had been established by the Fourth Tongkhor, Dogyu Gyatso (stong 'khor 04 mdo rgyud rgya mtsho, d. 1683), in 1646. He was born in the Tongkhor estates in 1910 to the Doring (rdo ring) clan.

As a boy he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Eleventh Tongkhor, Tongkhor, Lobzang Jigme Tsultrim Gyatso (stong 'khor 11 blo bzang 'jigs med tshul khrims rgya mtsho, 1891-1909). He was given lay vows and teachings by Aru Horchenpa Yeshe Gyatso (a ru hor chen pa ye shes rgya mtsho, 1860-1921), who had also been a tutor to his previous incarnation.

He passed away at the age of eleven in 1920.

Alexander Gardner is Director and Chief Editor of the Treasury of Lives. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. He is the author of The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul The Great.

Published September 2012

དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ཡིག་ཆ་ཁག།

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གང་ཟག་འདིའི་གསུང་རྩོམ་ཁག་བོད་ཀྱི་ནང་བསྟན་དཔེ་ཚོགས་ལྟེ་གནས་སུ་འཚོལ།