Gangteng Gonpa

Gangteng Gonpa སྒང་སྟེང་གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་གླིང་ Gangtey Goenpa
—  village, monastery  —
Gangteng Gonpa, 2001<before restoration
Nickname(s): སྒང་སྟེང་དགོན་པ
Gangteng Gonpa Location in Bhutan
Coordinates: 27°30′N 90°10′E / 27.5°N 90.167°E / 27.5; 90.167
Country	Bhutan
District	Wangdue Phodrang District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Gangteng Gonpa (Dzongkha: སྒང་སྟེང་དགོན་པ, sometimes written "Gangtey Goenpa", is the name of an important monastery and the adjacent village in the Phobjika valley of Wangdue Phodrang District in central Bhutan.^[1]

Gangteng Monastery, or Gangteng Sangngak Chöling སྒང་སྟེང་གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་གླིང་, was established by the first Peling Gyalsé Rinpoche ^[2] or Gangteng Tulku, Rigdzin Pema Tinley (1564-1642), who was the grandson of the great Bhutanese "treasure revealer" Terchen Pema Lingpa (1450-1521).

Gangteng Monastery is one of the main seats of the religious tradition based on Pema Lingpa's revalations and one of the main centres of the Nyingmapa school of Buddhism in Bhutan. From 2002-2008 the Monastery has been completely restored under the present Gangteng Tulku, H.E. Rigdzin Kunzang Pema Namgyal (b. 1955).

A Nyingma monastic college or shedra, Do-ngag Tösam Rabgayling, has been established above the village.

On the 10th of October, 2008 Gangteng Sang-ngak Chöling was restored to its original glory, and consecrated by the incarnations of Pema Lingpa, in a grand ceremony graced by the fourth King of Bhutan.^[3]

Throne Holders of Gangteng

1. Gyalsé Pema Thinley (རྒྱལ་སྲས་པདྨ་ཕྲིན་ལས) — (1564–1642)
2. Tenzin Legpé Döndrup (བསྟན་འཛིན་ལེགས་པའི་དོན་གྲུབ) — (1645–1727)
3. Kunzang Thinley Namgyal (ཀུན་བཟང་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ) — (1727–1758)
4. Tenzin Sizhi Namgyal (བསྟན་འཛིན་སྲིད་ཞི་རྣམ་རྒྱལ) — (1759–1790)
5. Ugyen Gelek Namgyal (ཨོ་རྒྱན་དགེ་ལེགས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ) — (1791–1840)
6. Tenpai Nyima (བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ) — (1838–1874)
7. Tenpai Nyinjé (བསྟན་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད) — (1875–1905)
8. Ugyen Thinley Dorji (ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ) — (1906–1949)
9. Kunzang Rigdzin Pema Namgyal (རིག་འཛིན་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ) — (b.1955)

References

1. ^ "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-05. 
2. ^ Harding, Sarah (2003). The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications. pp. ix. ISBN 1-55939-194-4. 
3. ^ Dorji, Kinley; Rinzin Wangchuk (2008-10-11). "Peling abode restored, empowered". Kuensel. http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11289. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 

Sources

• Gangteng, Literary Committee (2008). The Rosary of Jewels: Biographies of the Successive Throne Holders of Gangteng. Thimphu, Bhutan: Gangteng Monastery. ISBN 9993622745. 

• Harding, Sarah (2003). The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-194-4. 

External links

• Gangteng website, Bhutan
• Satellite map at Maplandia.com
• Gangteng Monastery Restoration Project
• Landmarks Foundation page on Gangteng Gonpa

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