Lobsang Yeshe ( Tib. བློ་ བཟང་ ཡེ་ ཤེས ; 1663-1737) - Panchen Lama V, Tibetan religious and political figure.
| Lobsang Yeshe | ||
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| བློ་ བཟང་ ཡེ་ ཤེས་ | ||
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| Community | Tibetan Buddhism | |
| Predecessor | Panchen Lama IV, Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen | |
| Successor | Panchen Lama VI, Lobsang Palden Yeshe | |
| Birth | 1663 | |
| Death | 1737 | |
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He was born into a family of well-known and noble parents in the Tobgyel region [1] in Tsang province. His father's name was Dechen Gyalpo, his mother was Serab Dolma. Soon he was recognized as the embodiment of Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662), the fourth Panchen Lama, and was settled with a ceremony in the Tashilunpo Monastery .
He took the novice’s vows when he was 8 years old (7 in Western terms of age), in Lhasa Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso , the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682), then he was given the name Lobsang Yeshe. At the age of twenty, he was ordained Konchog Gyaltsen [2] .
When he was 32 years old (in 1696 or 1697), he sent a congratulatory delegation to Beijing . Emperor Kangxi (1662-1723) invited him to Beijing, but he asked to be released for fear of contracting smallpox [2] .
Regent, Sangye Gyatso invited the Panchen Lama V Lobsang Yeshe to lead the adoption of the first monastic vows by the Sixth Dalai Lama in the city of Nankarz on Lake Yamjo-Yumzo , where the Pachen Lama called him Tsang Gyatso. In October 1697, Tsangyan Gyatso was enthroned as the sixth Dalai Lama [3] .
In 1701, Lhavzan Khan , allied to the Chinese khoshouts , killed the regent of the Dalai Lama, Sangye Gyatso. This very upset the young Dalai Lama, who interrupted his studies and even, having visited Lobsang Yeshe in Shigatse , refused to give the initial monastic vows [3] .
In 1713, Lobsang Yeshe received a letter, written in gold in three different languages - Tibetan, Mongolian and Manchu, from the emperor Kansi , who sent him a large tangka with his name on it [2] .
The Seventh Dalai Lama was erected on the throne in the Potala Palace in 1720. He took the vows of a novice monk under the direction of the Fifth Panchen Lama Lobsang Yeshe, who called him Kelsang Gyatso. In 1726, he took vows of full consecration ( Gelong vows) also under the guidance of Lobsang Yeshi [4] .
In 1728, Emperor Yongzheng (1723-1736) sent Amban Alihu to settle the borders between the provinces of Wu and Tsang. At that time, there was a civil war, and the Chinese asked the Panchen Lama if he could take control of the entire territory between Khambala and Mount Kailash . The Panchen Lama refused several times, citing his advanced age, but in the end he was persuaded to take control of all the lands of Tibet that lie west of Panama and to abandon the possession of Pagri , Gyangdze , Yardosho and other places in favor of the government in Lhasa [ 2] .
He wrote eighteen volumes of hymns and commandments and died in 1737 at the age of 75 (74 by western notation).
For his remains, a tomb with a gilded copper dome was built, like his predecessor, only more [2] . During the Cultural Revolution, all the tombs of the Panchen Lamas in Tashilunpo , from the fifth to the ninth, were destroyed. They were later rebuilt by the Tenth Panchen Lama in the form of a huge tomb at the Tashilunpo monastery in Shigatse , known as Tashi Langyar [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Shakabpa V.D. Tibet. Political history. SPb., Nartang, 2003. ISBN 5-901941-10-1 - p. 131
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Dás, Sarat Chandra . 1882. The Lives of the Panchen Lamas. Reprinted in: Contributions on the Religion and History of Tibet, p. 118. (1970). Manjusri Publishing House, New Delhi.
- ↑ 1 2 The Sixth Dalai Lama TSEWANG GYALTSO. Archived on June 10, 2007.
- ↑ Seventh Dalai Lama KELZANG GYATSO. Archived July 1, 2010.
- ↑ Mayhew Bradley, Kohn Michael . 2005. Tibet. 6th Edition. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 1-74059-523-8 p. 175.