Chapter 22 - Abbatial lineage of Tshal Gungthang

[Full title: Abbatial lineage of Tshal Gungthang; mtshal gung thang pa’i bla rabs kyi skabs; Chandra 625; Chengdu 838; Roerich 716.]

Zhang rin po che’s successor, the incomparable Śākya ye shes was born in the year Fire Female Hare (me mo yos 1147 A.D.). At the age of forty-eight, in the year Wood Tiger (shing stag, 1194 A.D.) he was appointed abbot. He died at the age of sixty-one.

Next year, an Earth Male Dragon year (sa pho 'brug 1208 A.D.), the ācārya byang yes was appointed (abbot). Then after three years, in the year Iron Male Horse (lcags pho rta, 1210 A.D.) he entrusted the chair to lha phyug mkhar ba.

In the next Wood Male Dog (shing pho khyi, 1214 A.D.) year, sangs rgyas 'bum was appointed to the chair.

Then, after eighteen years, in the year Iron Female Hare (lcags mo yos, 1231 A.D.) sgom pa ye shes ldan expelled sangs rgyas 'bum, and sangs rgyas snying po was nominated to the chair. Seven years after that, in the year Fire Hen (me bya, 1237 A. D.) he died.

In the following Earth Male Dog (sa pho khyi, 1238 A.D.) rin po che sangs rgyas gzhon nu was appointed to the chair. In the fifth year of his abbotship, in the Water Tiger (chu stag, 1242 A.D.) year, the abbot sangs rgyas 'bum me was permitted to return, and founded sGom sde. Sangs gzhon pa died in the year Iron Ape (lcags spre'u 1260 A.D.) after occupying the chair for twenty-three years.

The rin po che gser khang stengs pa kun dga' rgyal mtshan was born in the year Water Female Sheep (chu mo lug, 1223 A.D.). At the age of thirty-eight, he was appointed to the abbot’s chair, and occupied the chair for thirty-three years. He passed away at the age of seventy in the year Water Dragon (chu 'brug, 1292 A.D.).

rin po che sangs rin pa, born in the year Fire Female Sheep (me mo lug, 1247 A.D.), was appointed to the chair at the age of forty-six. He died at the age of fifty-five, in the year Iron Ox (Icags glang, 1301 A.D.).

In the same year, rin po che Śākya 'bum pa, born in the year Wood Female Ox (shing mo glang, 1265 A.D.), aged thirty-seven, was appointed to the chair. After him, in the 12th month of the Water Male Tiger year (chu pho stag, 1302 A.D.) Ti śrī. (Ti shih) grags pa 'od zer passed away. This Water Male Tiger (chu pho stag, 1302 A.D.) is the (birth) year of the ācārya byang rgyal. In the year Water Female Hare (chu mo yos, 1303 A.D.) 'jam dbyangs rin rgyal. proceeded to the Imperial Palace. Rin po che Śākya 'bum pa occupied the chair for ten years and passed away in the year Iron Male Dog (Icags pho khyi 1310 A. D.).

Rin po che byang chub dpal bzang po, aged thirty, was appointed to the chair during that year. He was born in the year Iron Serpent (lcags sbrul, 1281 A.D.), occupied the chair for forty-seven years, and died in the year Fire Male Ape (me pho spre'u, 1356 A.D.).

After him spyan snga grags pa bshes gnyen pa, who was born in the year Water Male Dog (chu pho khyi, 1322 A.D.). At the age of thirty-six, in the year Fire Female Hen (me mo bya 1357 A.D.) he was appointed to the abbot’s chair. He acted as abbot for twenty-four years, and died at the age of sixty in the year Iron Hen (Icags bya, 1381 A.D.).

After that, from the year Water Dog (chu khyi, 1382 A.D.) to the year Fire Ape (me spre 1476 A.D.) ninety-five years have passed. In general, from the birth of zhang rin po che to the year Fire Ape (me spre, 1476 A.D.) 354 years have passed. The Chapter on the succession of abbots, of mtshal gung thang^[1] .

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Situated in the vicinity of Lhasa, on the south bank of the skyi chu (R).