Yumbulagang (also known as Yumbu Lhakhang or Yungbulakang Palace) is an ancient palace in the district of Nêdong in the vicinity of Zêtang in the county Shannan, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It was the first palace for the first Tibetan king Niechi in Tibet. Yungbulakang stands on a hill on the eastern bank of the Yalung River in southeast Naidong County, near Lhasa, 9 km south of Tsetang. A legend counts Yumbulagang as the first building in Tibet.
It is also named "The Mosher and Song Holy Hall" as during King Niechi's rule, the Yalong tribe gradually expanded in power and conquered other important tribes in the area, eventually under the rule of Songzang Ganbu who united the lands into the Tubo kingdom in the 7th century.
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History
According to a legend of followers of the Bön religion, Yumbulagang was erected in the second century B.C. for the first Tibetan king Nyatri Tsenpo, descended from the sky. During the reign of the 28th king Lha Thothori Nyantsen in the fifth century a golden Stupa, a jewel (and/or a form to the manufacture of dough-Stupas)[1] and a Sutra that no one could read fell from the sky on the roof of Yumbulagang; a voice from the sky announced: "in five generations one shall come, that understands its meaning!"[2] Later, Yumbulagang became the summer palace of the 33rd king Songtsen Gampo and princess Wencheng. After Songtsen Gampo had transferred his seat to Lhasa, Yumbulagang became a shrine and under the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, a monastery of the Gelugpa school.
The Yumbulagang was heavily damaged during the Cultural revolution and was reconstructed in the 1980s.
Interior
The castle is divided into front and back parts. The front is a 3 storey building while the back has a tall tower like a castle. Enshrined at the palace are the statues of Thiesung Sangjie Buddha, King Niechi, the first King of Tibet, Songsten Gampo and other Tubo kings.
Books
- ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho: bod kyi deb ther dpyid kyi rgyal mo’i glu dbyangs. Kapitel 2 und 3. Übersetzung von Zahiruddin Ahmad ins Englische: A History of Tibet by the Fifth Dalai Lama of Tibet (Bloomington, Indiana University 1995), ISBN 0-933070-32-2.
- nor brang o rgyan: gangs can yul gyi sa la spyod pa’i mtho ris kyi rgyal byon gtso bor brjod pa’i deb ther rdzogs ldan gzhon nu’i dga' ston dpyid kyi rgyal mo’i glu dyangs-kyi ’grel pa yid kyi dga’ ston (Beijing, mi rigs dpe skrun khang / Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族出版社 1993), ISBN 0-933070-32-2.
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- Yum bu bla sgang (Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library)
References
- ^ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche: The Eight Manifestations of Guru Padmasambhva (ratna.info)
- ^ Eva M. Dargyay: The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet (Delhi, Motinal Banarsidass 1979), ISBN 81-208-1577-7, S. 4.
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