Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa | |
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Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
School | Karma Kagyu |
Lineage | Nenang Pawo |
Other names | Tsuglag Trengwa, Tsuklak Trengwa (dpa' bo 02 gtsug lag phreng ba) |
Dharma names | Pel Tsuklak Trengwa (dpal gtsug lag phreng ba) |
Monastic name | Mipam Chokyi Gyatso (mi pham chos kyi rgya mtsho) |
Personal | |
Born |
1504, the wood-mouse year of the eighth sexagenary cycle; father, Lama Dar (bla ma dar); mother, Lamnye Dolma (lam rnyed sgol ma).Ganggyu in Nyêtang (snye thang gi sgangs rgyud) |
Died | 1566, at dawn on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the year of fire-tiger of the ninth sexagenary cycle (age 63) |
Senior posting | |
Period in office | 1508–66 |
Consecration | Enthroned to seat of the lineage, Lhodrak Drowolung Sekhar Gutok (Lhodrolung) Monastery |
Predecessor | First Pawo, Chowang Lhundrub (dpa' bo 01 chos dbang lhun grub, 1440/1455–1503) |
Religious career | |
Teacher | Dakpo Chokle Namgyel (dwags po phyogs las rnam rgyal, 1456–1539) |
Reincarnation | First Pawo, Chowang Lhundrub (dpa' bo 01 chos dbang lhun grub, 1440/1455–1503) |
Students | Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama, 5th Zhamar Konchok Yenlag, and 3rd Tsurpu Gyeltsab, Drakpa Peljor (mtshur phu rgyal tshab 03 grags pa dpal 'byor, 1519–1549) |
Works | mkhas pa'i dga' ston ; a religious history of the Kagyu tradition, the Scholars Feast (chos 'byung khas pa'i dga' ston) ; works on history, medicine, astrology, general Buddhism |
Ordination | Vows of upasaka (dge bsnyen), primary monk (rab byung), and novice monk (dge tsul) at age 9; Full ordination (dge slong) at age 23 |
Profession | Historian |
1504, the wood-mouse year of the eighth sexagenary cycle;
Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa (Wylie: dpa' bo gtsug lag phreng ba; 1504–1566), the second Nenang Pawo, was a Tibetan historian of the Karma Kagyu. He was a disciple of Mikyö Dorje, 8th Karmapa Lama. He was the author of the famous mkhas pa'i dga' ston, A Scholar's Feast, addressing history of Buddhism in India and its spread in Tibet, as well as history of Tibet
Of Tsuklak Trengwa's many students, his chief disciples included the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje, the Fifth Zhamar Konchok Yenlag, and the Third Tsurpu Gyeltsab, Drakpa Peljor (mtshur phu rgyal tshab 03 grags pa dpal 'byor, 1519–1549).
In 1565, a year before his death, he wrote a detailed commentary of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (Wylie: gtsug lag ’grel chen).
His dharma histories were cited by the 4th Drikung Chetsang, Tenzin Peme Gyaltsen (1770–1826) in The Golden Garland of the Throne Lineage (Denrab Chöjung Serthreng, gdan rabs chos byung gser phreng).