Category: Buddhism

Tsangyang Gyatso, (Tibetan: ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ,Wylie transliteration: Tshang dbyang Rgya mtsho), (1683 – November 15 1706) was the sixth Dalai Lama. He was a Monpa by ethnicity. Contents Early life Life as a Dalai Lama Deposition and disappearence Miscellaneous Trivia Early life Tsangyang was born in Tawang to Lama Tashi Tenzin of Urgeling, a descendant of the treasure revealer Pema Lingpa and...

The Trungpa tülkus are a line of incarnate Tibetan lamas who traditionally head Surmang monastery (complex) in Kham (Eastern Tibet). There have been twelve such tulkus thus far. Mahasiddha Trungmase was the teacher of the first Trungpa Tulku, Kunga Gyaltsen. The Line of the Trungpa Tulkus Kunga Gyaltsen Kunga Zangpo Kung Oser Kunga Namgyal Tendrel Chögyal Lodro Tenphel Jampel Chögyal...

The Tripitaka Koreana (lit. Goryeo Tripitaka) or Palman Daejanggyeong (“Eighty-Thousand Tripitaka“) is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures), carved onto 81,340 wooden printing blocks in the 13th century. It is the world’s most comprehensive and oldest intact version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script, with no known errors in the 52,382,960 characters. The work is stored in Haeinsa,...

Trinley Gyatso (January 26, 1857 – April 25, 1875), also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso, was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet. His short life coincided with a time of major political unrest and wars among Tibet’s neighbours. Tibet particularly suffered from the weakening of the Qing Dynasty which formerly offered it some outside support against the British Empire...

The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, literally “Three bodies or personalities”; 三身 Chinese: Sānshén, Japanese: sanjin) is an important Buddhist teaching both on the nature of reality, and what a Buddha is. By the 4th century CE the Trikaya Doctrine had assumed the form that we now know. Briefly the doctrine says that a Buddha has three ‘bodies’: the nirmana-kaya or created...

The Tricycle Foundation, formerly The Buddhist Ray, Inc., was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the introduction and dissemination of Buddhist views and values. In 1991 it boldly launched Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first magazine intended to present Buddhist perspectives to a Western readership. Until then, there was no public forum for exploring contemporary and...

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is a Buddhist quarterly, published in the United States by the Tricycle Foundation, formerly known as Buddhist Ray, Inc. It has the largest circulation of any Buddhist magazine in the US. According to the 2005 Writers’ Market, circulation of the magazine is 60,000. Praise of the Magazine Tricycle: The Buddhist Review recently won the 2005 Folio...

Tonpa Shenrab (Wylie: ston pa gshen rab “Teacher gShenrab”) or Shenrab Miwo (Wylie: gshen rab mi bo)—also called the Buddha Shenrab, Guru Shenrab and a number of other titles—is the founder of the Bon tradition of Tibet. The founder of the Bon religion, the Lord Shenrab Miwo, was one of three brothers, Dagpa, Salba and Shepa. In past ages they...

Tongbulgyo is a school of “interpenetrated Buddhism” which was taught by the Korean monk Wonhyo. Wonhyo is one of the most famous Buddhist monks in the “Buddhist Order of the Qing Dynasty”, “The third generation of the great master finally goes back to the way of the first sutra Buddha, I returned to the way of Buddhism of the Buddha,...

Tomek Lehnert was born on August 15, 1956 in Gdańsk, Poland. He studied Civil Engineering at the Polytechnics of Gdansk and English literature at the University of Poznań. He was active in the students’ Solidarity movement in Poland in the early eighties. In 1983, Lehnert became a practitioner of Buddhism in the Karma Kagyu school. He left Poland in 1985...

Tōji (東寺; とうじ) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect in Kyoto, Japan. Its name means East Temple, and it once had a partner, Saiji (West Temple). They stood alongside the Rashomon, the gate to the Heian capital. The famous priest Kobo Daishi (Kukai) founded Tōji in 823 A.D. by order of Emperor Saga. The temple’s formal name is...

The Tripitaka (Sanskrit, lit. three baskets), Tipitaka (Pāli), or 三藏 (Chinese: Sānzàng; Japanese: Sanzo; Khmer: Traipětâk ត្រៃបិតក; Korean: Samjang 삼장; Thai: Traipidok ไตรปิฎก; Vietnamese: Tam tạng) is the formal term for a Buddhist canon of scriptures. Many different versions of the canon exist throughout the Buddhist world, containing an enormous variety of texts. The most widely-known version is the Pali...

The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed account of Buddhism from the birth of Gautama Buddha to the present. Some sources give the date of the Buddha’s birth as 563 BCE and others as 624 BCE; Theravada Buddhist countries tend to use the latter figure. This displaces all the dates in the following table about 61 years...

Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tame tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists. The Theravada Buddhist temple is located in the Saiyok district of Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, not far from the border with Myanmar, along the...