Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, 3rd Panchen Lama | |
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Tibetan name | |
Tibetan: | དབེན་ས་པ་བློ་བཟང་དོན་དྲུཔ་་ |
Wylie transliteration: | dben sa pa blo bzang don grub |
pronunciation in IPA: | [wẽsapa lopsaŋ tø̃ʈʂup] |
official transcription (PRC): | Wênsaba Lobsang Toinchub |
THDL: | Wensapa Blopzang Döndrup |
other transcriptions: | Gyalwa Ensapa, Ensapa Lozang Döndrup, Ensapa Losang Dhodrub, Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup |
Chinese name | |
traditional: | 羅桑丹珠 |
simplified: | 罗桑丹珠 |
Pinyin: | Luósāng Dānzhū |
Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup (1505–1568) was a Tibetan Buddhist religious leader. He was posthumously recognised as the third Panchen Lama.
Ensapa was known to have spent more than 20 years meditating in isolated caves near the Himalayan mountains. When he was a young boy Gyalwa Ensäpa received many visions of Buddha Shakyamuni. He also possessed natural clairvoyance and was able to know that people were about to visit his family even when they were still many days' journay away. Later, when he ordained as a monk, he was able to recite the entire Perfection of Wisdom Sutra in Eight Thousand Lines from memory, both in Tibetan and in Sanskrit. His fellow monks,who had never heard Sanskrit spoken, thought that he was possessed by spirits!
Preceded by Sönam Choklang |
Panchen Lama | Succeeded by Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen |
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