Elhunyt a tibeti buddhizmus gelug hagyományának 103. feje

2017. április 22./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Dharpo

DHARAMSHALA, APR. 22: The head of the Gelugpa tradition of the Tibetan Buddhism has passed away late last night at Max Hospital in New Delhi. The 103rd Gaden Tripa H.E. Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche breathed his last around midnight yesterday after being admitted in the intensive care unit. There is no information on what ailment the Gaden Tripa was suffering from.

The Gelugpa MPs in the Tibetan Parliament in exile Geshe Lharampa Atruk Tseten and Ven. Gowa Phendey told Tibetan exile government run Tibet.net, “We deeply regret to inform everyone that the 103rd Gaden Tripa H.E. Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche passed away at 11:45 pm on April 21, 2017. He has been taken ill since last few months and breathed his last in Max hospital in Delhi last night.”

“With profound sadness, I on behalf of all Tibetans pray that H.E. Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin Rinpoche will be reborn and carry forward his mission to spread the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,” Tibetan PM Lobsang Sangay was quoted as saying.

In October last year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed the deceased as the 103rd Gaden Tripa, the highest order of the Gelugpa sect conferred on the basis of scholarly merit.

The scholar par-excellence was born in Eastern Tibet’s Kham Dechen in 1937, enrolling in the Tsem monastery at a very young age followed by the Drepung Loseling Monastic University for his higher education where he received various teachings from reputed Tibetan spiritual masters like Khensur Pema Gyaltsen, Shakor Khen Rinpoche Nyima Gyaltsen, Kyabje Denma Lochoe Rinpoche, Tehor Gen Lobsang Dhondup, among others. He also received many teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his tutors, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche.

As one of the refugees who came into exile in the wake of the Chinese occupation in 1959, the learned master assumed many roles in the monastic order of major monasteries in India. He earned his Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest academic honor of gelugpa sect, in 1982. The highly decorated scholar was also the 119th abbot of Gyuto monastery and the Sharpa Choejey at the Gaden monastery, prior to being enthroned as the pinnacle of the Gelug hierarchy as the Gaden Tripa.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the late religious leader at hospital last month before heading for his northeast India tour.