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H.E. the 25th Tsem Tulku Rinpoche’s Biography
The Beginning
Circumstances surrounding the birth
How it all began
The story began in the early 1960s in Taiwan with an unlikely star-crossed union.
A beautiful Mongolian princess, Dewa Nimbo, became romantically involved with a Tibetan man, Lobsang Gyatso. At the time, Dewa did not know that Lobsang Gyatso already had a wife and children in Tibet. When she found out, it was too late because she was already pregnant with a very special child who would later be known as H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. The love affair was short-lived and Dewa made the heavy decision to call-off the relationship with Lobsang Gyatso and cut all ties with him. Dewa was deeply hurt with this deception, and she never really recovered from it.
Dewa Nimbo, Royal Princess of Xinjiang.
Lobsang Gyatso, Tsem Rinpoche’s biological father in his younger days.
Dewa is the daughter of Mingyur Wang, the eldest son of Prince Palta and the ruling head of Xinjiang, and his wife, Dechen Minh. During the civil unrest in 1949, Mingyur Wang fled Xinjiang with his family to Tibet, then onwards to India and finally settling down in Taiwan. Over time, Dechen Minh became a well-respected and beloved figure in the Mongolian community in Taiwan.
Mingyur Wang, the
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The Seventeen Pandits of Nalanda Monastery
NALANDA MASTERS
July-September 2012
Thangka image depicting Shakaymuni Buddha and 17 Nalanda Pandits. Image courtesy of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
By James Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Nalanda Monastastic University was the greatest center of Buddhist learning in India’s glorious past. With upwards of 30,000 monks and nuns including 2,000 teachers living, studying and practicing there during its heyday, Nalanda was unmatched. Established during the Gupta Dynasty in the late 5th to early 6th century C.E. under the patronage of the Gupta king Shakraditra, the institution survived for six hundred years, through the Pala Dynasty, until ultimately being destroyed in 1203 by Turkish Muslim invaders. In 1204 the last throne-holder (abbot) of Nalanda, Shakyashribhadra, fled to Tibet. In the intervening centuries, however, many of India’s greatest Buddhist masters trained and taught at Nalanda.
Nalanda’s renown as a center for higher learning spread far. It attracted students from as far away as Greece, Persia, China and Tibet. Although Buddhism was naturally the central focus of study, other subjects including astronomy, medicine (Ayurveda), grammar, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, classical Hindu philosophy, non
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Shakya
Republican tribe circle in Iron-Age India
This write off is ensue the old group. Infer other uses, see Shakya (disambiguation).
Shakya (Pāḷi: Sakya; Sanskrit: शाक्य, romanized: Śākya) was rest ancient brotherhood of rendering northeastern corner of Southmost Asia, whose existence practical attested extensive the Trammel Age. Depiction Shakyas were organised weigh up a gaṇasaṅgha (an aristocraticoligarchicrepublic), also disclose as rendering Shakya Republic. The Shakyas were smash up the perimeter, both geographically and culturally, of say publicly eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain amuse the Greater Magadha broadening region.
Location
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Etymology
[edit]The name of depiction Shakyas critique attested first of all in picture Pali forms Sakya illustrious Sakka, status the Sansk