Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen
| Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen | |
|---|---|
| སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན། | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Sect | Gelug |
| Temple | Drepung Monastery |
| Other names | Drakpa Gyeltsen (གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།), Zimkhang Gongma Drakpa Gyeltsen (གཟིམས་ཁང་གོང་མ་༤་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན), Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen (སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།), Kyorlung Ngari Trülku 06 (སྐྱོར་ལུང་མངའ་རིས་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་༦). |
| Personal | |
| Died | Lhasa |
| Senior posting | |
| Period in office | 17th century |
| Religious career | |
| Reincarnation | Ngakwang Sönam Gélek Pelzang |
Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen (1619–1656) was an important Gelugpa lama and a contemporary of the 5th Dalai Lama (1617–1682). His Seat was the upper residence (Wylie: gzims khang gong ma) of Drepung Monastery, a famous Gelug gompa located near Lhasa.
Tibetan Buddhists consider Trülku Drakpa Gyeltsen to be the 6th Kyorlung Ngari Tulku, a line of incarnate lamas which began with Duldzin Dragpa Gyaltsen (1374-1434), an important disciple of Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school.
Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen is also called the 4th Drepung Zimkhang Gongma or rebirth of Panchen Sonam Dragpa, the 3rd Kyorlung Ngari Tulku, who held the posts of the 15th Ganden Tripa and abbot of Drepung. Before his death in 1554, he had established his own monastic estate, known as the Upper Chamber (Zimkhang Gongma), named for its location at the top of Drepung Monastery just below the Ngakpa debating courtyard. This grew to be a rival centre of power in Drepung to the estate of the Dalai Lamas, called Ganden Phodrang, or so-called lower chamber (Zimkhang 'Ogma) which had been constructed in 1518 by the 2nd Dalai Lama.
According to Lindsay G. McCune, the "Gelukpa authorities" agreed that Tulku Dragpa Gyaltsen was the immediate rebirth of Sönam Gelek Pelzang (1594–1615), and the fourth incarnation, or tulku, in the Drepung Zimkhang Gongma line.
His prior "incarnation lineage" includes:
Some Tibetan Buddhists believe that, prior to his birth as Duldzin Dragpa Gyaltsen, he was also Buton Rinchen Drub (1291–1364) of Shalu Monastery
Tibetan historian Samten Karmay writes that after the death of Dragpa Gyaltsen the search for his reincarnation was banned. Thus the Drepung Zimkhang Gongma line ended and the estate founded by Panchen Sönam Dragpa in 1554 at the Upper Chamber of Drepung ceased to exist in 1656.
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