The Treasury of Lives

The Tsemonling incarnation line was established in the nineteenth century. The incarnation line is named Tsemonling after the palace in Lhasa where the Sixty-first Ganden Tripa Trichen Ngawang Tsultrim lived and founded a college, earning the name Tsemonling Lama. Ngawang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso, recognized as the reincarnation of Ngawang Tsultrim became the Second Tsemonling. The First Tsemonling Ngawang Tsultrim served as the sixth Regent of Tibet from 1777 to 1786 and the Third Tsemonling served as Regent in the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's absence during the 1911 Chinese invasion of Tibet.

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Biographies

The Sixty-First Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Tsultrim

b.1721 - d.1791

Ngawang Tsultrim served as the sixth Regent of Tibet from 1777 to 1786, and, almost simultaneously, as the Sixty-first Ganden Tripa, from 1778 to 1785. As regent he reformed trade regulations; as Tripa he served as tutor to the Eighth Dalai Lama, and restored the Dalai Lama's quarters in the Potala Palace. He later joined the court of the Qianlong Emperor in Beijing, serving as abbot of Yonghegong and de facto representative of Tibet. He gave teachings in Mongolia and completed the translation of the Kangyur into Mongolian. He was educated in Sera and Gyuto and was the founder of the Tsemongling Labrang, and the Shedrub Ling Labrang at Sera.