Nenang Pawo
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Nenang Pawo Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist
lama, considered to be one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu
sect. The Pawos form a lineage of reincarnate lamas, tulku
s, of which the first was born in 1440. They were traditionally the heads of Nenang Monastery in Central Tibet.
The 10th Pawo Rinpoche, named Tsuglag Mawey Wangchuk, lived from 1912 to 1991. He was recognised by the 15th Karmapa
, Khakyab Dorje
. After completing the traditional education of a reincarnate lama followed by a period of meditative retreat, he became one of the teachers of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
. Pawo fled Tibet during the uprising against Chinese Communist
rule in 1959, travelling to Bhutan
and then on the Kalimpong in India
. At the request of the Dalai Lama
, Pawo served as an instructor at the Sanskrit University in Benares from 1962 until 1966. In 1975, he travelled in Western countries, establishing his Western seat in France
where he lived permanently (1978–1986). In 1986 he established a new monastery, Nenang Phuntsok Chöling, near Boudnath in Nepal
, where he resided for the remainder of his life.
In 1994, the 11th Nenang Pawo, while still an infant, was recognised by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who is accepted as the current Karmapa by one faction of the Karma Kagyu and by the Chinese government. The 11th Pawo was enthroned at Nenang Monastery near Lhasa
in 1995 and given the name Tsuglag Tenzin Künsang Chökyi Nyima or Tsuglag Mawey Drayang. Following Ogyen Trinley's escape to India
in 2000, which was aided by a monk from Nenang, reports surfaced that, in reprisal, the child Pawo had been removed for a while from his monastery and that his religious education had been restricted.http://www.tibet.net/en/tibbul/2001/0107/pawo.html
in Central Tibet. It is said that he was given the title Pawo, which means "hero", as a result of the supernatural powers he displayed at a young age. He became a student of the 7th Karmapa, Chödrak Gyatso, whom he encountered in southern Tibet
. Being first a Nyingma
meditation master, Chöwang Lhundrup became one of the Karmapa's spiritual heirs, the Karmapa establishing him as the head of Sekhar Guthog, the place where lived Milarepa
and Marpa
.
The second Pawo, Tsuglag Trengwa, was the "moon-like" disciple of the 8th Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje
, as well as a famous author of historical, philosophical and astrological texts. In 1673, during the reign of the fifth Dalai Lama
, the seat of the lineage was moved from Sekhar Guthog to Nenang Monastery, which is located in Central Tibet near Tsurphu Monastery
, the main monastery of the Karmapas.
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India . It is the state religion of Bhutan...
lama, considered to be one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu
Karma Kagyu
Karma Kagyu , or Kamtsang Kagyu, is probably the largest and certainly the most widely practiced lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The lineage has long-standing monasteries in Tibet, China, Russia, Mongolia, India, Nepal, and Bhutan, and current...
sect. The Pawos form a lineage of reincarnate lamas, tulku
Tulku
In Tibetan Buddhism, a tulku is a particular high-ranking lama, of whom the Dalai Lama is one, who can choose the manner of his rebirth. Normally the lama would be reincarnated as a human, and of the same sex as his predecessor. In contrast to a tulku, all other sentient beings including other...
s, of which the first was born in 1440. They were traditionally the heads of Nenang Monastery in Central Tibet.
The 10th Pawo Rinpoche, named Tsuglag Mawey Wangchuk, lived from 1912 to 1991. He was recognised by the 15th Karmapa
Karmapa
The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa , itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism....
, Khakyab Dorje
Khakyab Dorje
The fifteenth Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje , spoke the mantra of Chenrezig "Om mani peme hung" at his birth in Sheikor village in Tsang province in Central Tibet. Five years later he was able to read the scriptures....
. After completing the traditional education of a reincarnate lama followed by a period of meditative retreat, he became one of the teachers of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism...
. Pawo fled Tibet during the uprising against Chinese Communist
Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...
rule in 1959, travelling to Bhutan
Bhutan
Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...
and then on the Kalimpong in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. At the request of the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
, Pawo served as an instructor at the Sanskrit University in Benares from 1962 until 1966. In 1975, he travelled in Western countries, establishing his Western seat in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
where he lived permanently (1978–1986). In 1986 he established a new monastery, Nenang Phuntsok Chöling, near Boudnath in Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, where he resided for the remainder of his life.
In 1994, the 11th Nenang Pawo, while still an infant, was recognised by Ogyen Trinley Dorje, who is accepted as the current Karmapa by one faction of the Karma Kagyu and by the Chinese government. The 11th Pawo was enthroned at Nenang Monastery near Lhasa
Lhasa
Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...
in 1995 and given the name Tsuglag Tenzin Künsang Chökyi Nyima or Tsuglag Mawey Drayang. Following Ogyen Trinley's escape to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
in 2000, which was aided by a monk from Nenang, reports surfaced that, in reprisal, the child Pawo had been removed for a while from his monastery and that his religious education had been restricted.http://www.tibet.net/en/tibbul/2001/0107/pawo.html
History
The first Pawo, Chöwang Lhundrup, was born in 1440 in YarlungYarlung
Yarlung can refer to:*Yarlung Kingdom, see also: Tibetan empire*Yarlung Dynasty, see also: List of emperors of Tibet*Yarlung Valley, formed by the Yarlung River and refers especially to the district where it joins with the Chongye River, and broadens out into a large plain about 2 km wide, before...
in Central Tibet. It is said that he was given the title Pawo, which means "hero", as a result of the supernatural powers he displayed at a young age. He became a student of the 7th Karmapa, Chödrak Gyatso, whom he encountered in southern Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
. Being first a Nyingma
Nyingma
The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism . "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as Nga'gyur or the "old school" because it is founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan, in the eighth century...
meditation master, Chöwang Lhundrup became one of the Karmapa's spiritual heirs, the Karmapa establishing him as the head of Sekhar Guthog, the place where lived Milarepa
Milarepa
Jetsun Milarepa , is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets. He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.- Life :...
and Marpa
Marpa Lotsawa
Marpa Lotsawa , sometimes known fully as Lhodak Marpa Choski Lodos or commonly as Marpa the Translator, was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Buddhist teachings to Tibet from India, including the teachings and lineages of Vajrayana and Mahamudra.-Biography:Born as...
.
The second Pawo, Tsuglag Trengwa, was the "moon-like" disciple of the 8th Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje
Mikyö Dorje
Mikyö Dorje , also Mikyo Dorje, was the eighth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.Mikyö Dorje was born in Satam, Kham. According to the legend, he said after being born: "I am Karmapa." and was recognized by Tai Situpa. In this case there was another child from Amdo who...
, as well as a famous author of historical, philosophical and astrological texts. In 1673, during the reign of the fifth Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
, the seat of the lineage was moved from Sekhar Guthog to Nenang Monastery, which is located in Central Tibet near Tsurphu Monastery
Tsurphu Monastery
Tsurphu Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery which served as the traditional seat of the Karmapa. It is located in Gurum town of Doilungdêqên County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, 70 km from Lhasa. The monastery is about 14,000 feet above sea level...
, the main monastery of the Karmapas.
List of Pawos
| name | life span | Tibetan Tibetan language The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,... | Wylie Wylie transliteration The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter. It bears the name of Turrell V. Wylie, who described the scheme in an article, A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription, published in 1959... |
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| 1. | Chöwang Lhundrup | 1440–1503 | ཆོས་དབང་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ | Chos-dbang Lhun-grub |
| 2. | Tsuglag Trengwa | 1504–1566 | གཙུག་ལག་ཕྲེང་བ་ | Gtsug-lag Phreng-ba |
| 3. | Tsuglag Gyatso | 1567–1633 | གཙུག་ལག་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | Gtsug-lag Rgya-mtsho |
| 4. | Tsuglag Künsang | 1633–1649 | གཙུག་ལག་ཀུན་བཟང་ | Gtsug-lag Kun-bzang |
| 5. | Tsuglag Trinley Gyatso | 1650–1700 | གཙུག་ལག་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ | Gtsug-lag Phrin-las Rgya-mtsho |
| 6. | Tsuglag Chökyi Töntrub | 1701–1718 | གཙུག་ལག་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་གྲུབ་ | Gtsug-lag Chos-kyi Don-grub |
| 7. | Tsuglag Gawey Pangbo | 1719–1781 | གཙུག་ལག་དག་བའི་དབང་པོ་ | Gtsug-lag Dga'-ba'i Dbang-po |
| 8. | Tsuglag Chökyi Gyalpo | 1785–1841 | གཙུག་ལག་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ | Gtsug-lag Chos-kyi Rgyal-po |
| 9. | Tsuglag Nyinche | ?-1910 | གཙུག་ལག་ཉིན་བྱེད་ | Gtsug-lag Nyin-byed |
| 10. | Tsuglag Mawey Wangchuk | 1912–1991 | གཙུག་ལག་སྨྲ་བའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ | Gtsug-lag Smra-ba'i Dbang-phyug |
| 11. | Tsuglag Tenzin Künsang Chökyi Nyima | born 1993 | གཙུག་ལག་བསྟན་འཛིན ་ཀུན་བཟང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་ |
Gtsug-lag Bstan-'dzin Kun-bzang Chos-kyi Nyi-ma |
External links
- Rangjung Yeshe wiki, entry on the Pawo Rinpoches
- Rangjung Yeshe wiki, entry on the 2nd Pawo Rinpoche
- Rangjung Yeshe wiki, entry on the 10th Pawo Rinpoche
- Article on Nenang Pawo, from Rangjung.com