Tenpai Wangchuk

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Tenpai Wangchuk
Tibetan: བསྟན་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་་
Wylie: Bstan-pa'i Dbang-phyug
ZWPY: Dainbai Wangqug

Tenpai Wangchuk (1855 – 1882), was the 8th Panchen Lama of Tibet.

In 1822 the 10th Dalai Lama, was placed upon the Golden Throne and soon after his enthronement received his pre-novice ordination from Palden Tenpai Nyima, who gave him the name of Tsultrim Gyatso.[1] He also administered the Gelong vows (full ordination) to Tsultrin Gyatso in 1831.[2]

Unfortunately, all the tombs from the Fifth to the Ninth Panchen Lamas were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and have been rebuilt by the 10th Panchen Lama with a huge tomb at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, known as the Tashi Langyar.[3]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and tines of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 49.
  2. ^ "His Holiness the Tenth Dalai Lama TSULTRIM GYATSO." [1]
  3. ^ Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn, Michael. (2005) Tibet. 6th Edition. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 1-74059-523-8 p. 175.
Preceded by
Palden Tenpai Nyima		 Reincarnation of the Panchen Lama Succeeded by
Thubten Choekyi Nyima
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