The Sixtieth Ganden Tripa, Jangtse Lobzang Tenpa (dga' ldan khri pa 60 byang rtse blo bzang bstan pa) was born in Tsawarong (tsha ba rong) in Kham in 1725, the wood-snake year of the twelfth sexagenary cycle. As a youth he was admitted to Rablo Monastery (rab lo dgon pa) where he was ordained as a novice monk (rab byung) and learned reading and writing, and the memorization of daily prayer-texts and root-verses.
At the age of sixteen Lobzang Tenpa travelled to Lhasa and enrolled in the Sera Je College of the Sera Monastic University (ser byes grwa tshang) for further studies. There he commenced his study with logic and epistemology and related subjects, and then studied Abhisamayālaṃkāra, Madhyamaka, Abhidharmakośa, Pramāṇavārttika, and Vinaya, the five major subjects of the Geshe curriculum under the guidance a number of eminent teachers including Drakri Ngawang Dondrub (brag ri ngag dbang don grub, d.u.) and Lobzang Khechok (blo bzang mkhas mchog, d.u.). After completing his studies he stood for the examination and obtained the title of Lingse Kachu (gling bsre'i bka' bcu).
Lobzang Tenpa was granted the vows of fully ordained monk (dge slong) by the Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso (ta la'i bla ma 07 bskal bzang rgya mtsho, 1708-1757) assisted by Dungkar Ngawang Chodrak Gyatso (gdung dkar ngag dbang chos grags rgya mtsho, d.u.) and Demo Ngawang Jampel Delek Gyatso (de mo ngag dbang 'jam dpal bde legs rgya mtsho, d. 1777), the first Regent of Tibet. He also received teachings from these lamas. Later he received teachings on Lamrim, Ngakrim (sngags rim); and empowerment, transmission, esoteric instructions, and commentary on Yamāntaka, Cakrasaṃvara, and Guhyasamāja from the First Purchok, Ngawang Jampa (phur lcog 01 ngag dbang byams pa, 1682-1762).
Lobzang Tenpa then matriculated in Gyume College (rgyud smad grwa tshang) where he studied the four sections of tantra (rgyud sde bzhi) according to the Geluk tradition, both texts and relating rituals, including maṇḍala-drawings, under the guidance of a number of tantric scholars including Washul Khenchen Cho Gyatso (wa shul mkhan chen chos rgya mtsho, d.u.), his principal tutor. At the age of thirty-seven, having completed his studies, he was simultaneously appointed disciplinarian (dge bskos) and chant leader (bla ma dbu mdzad) of Gyume, in charge of education of the monastery.
Soon thereafter Lobzang Tenpa was promoted to the post of common abbot of the monasteries of Gyume and Ganden Jangtse. In 1772, water-dragon year of the thirteenth sexagenary cycle, he then ascended to the Golden Throne as the Sixtieth Ganden Tripa, at the age of forty-eight. Trichen Lobzang Tenpa served the post for six or seven years, until 1777 or 1778. He assisted in bestowing the vows of full ordination (bsnyen rdzogs) as time-keeper (dus go ba) to the Eighth Dalai Lama, Jampel Gyatso (ta la'i bla ma 08 rgyal ba 'jam dpal rgya mtsho, 1758-1804), and later served as his tutor.
At the age of fifty-eight, in 1782, in the water-tiger year of the thirteenth sexagenary cycle, Trichen Lobzang Tenpa passed into nirvana.
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