Radreng Monastery
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Radreng Monastery (T. rwa sgreng gom pa), a.k.a. Reting Monastery (T. རྭ་སྒྲེང་དགོན།; C. 热振寺),[1][2] was founded by Atiśa's chief disciple Dromtönpa in 1057 in the Reting Tsangpo Valley north of Lhasa. At its founding, it was the seat of the Kadampa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
The monastery was greatly expanded by Dromtönpa's successors "rnal 'byor pa chen po" and Potowa.[3] The monastery was sacked by Mongol invaders in 1240.[3]
Je Tsongkhapa visited the monastery in 1397, and while there he had visions of Atisa and composed his famous Lam rim chen mo.[3] Following this, the monastery became an important Gelug institution.[3]
Radreng Monastery later became the seat of the Reting incarnation line, "which began in the eighteenth century when the Second Reting, Lobzang Yeshe Tenpa Rabgye was recognized as the reincarnation of Ngawang Chokden. The Reting tulkus were one of only a few high-ranking incarnation lines empowered to become regent of Tibet during the absence or minority of the Dalai Lamas."[4]
The monastery was severely damaged during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, but it has since be partially rebuilt.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Grayb Tuttle, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Tibetan History Reader, Columbia University Press, 2013, p. 712 (Index): "Radreng (Reting, Gelukpa monastery northeast of Lhasa), Rwa sgreng)."
- ↑
Radreng monastery, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. rwa sgreng
- ↑
Reting Monastery, Treasury of Lives
External links
- Biography of Reting Rinpoche
- Photograph of Reting Monastery, by Hugh Edward Richardson
Reting Monastery, Wikipedia
