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The Eighth Ganden Tripa, Monlam Pelwa b.1414 - d.1491

Name Variants: Ganden Trichen 08 Monlam Pelwa; Ganden Tripa 08 Monlam Pelwa; Monlam

Lekpai Lodro; Tri 08 Monlam Pelwa; Yeru Monlam Pelwa

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The Eighth Ganden Tripa, Monlam Pelwa (dga' ldan khri pa 08, smon lam dpal ba), was born in

the Yeru region of Tsang (gtsang g.yas ru) in 1414, the wood-horse year of the seventh sexagenary

cycle. At a young age he enrolled in Tashilhunpo (bkra shis lhun po) and studied under Gendun

Drub (dge 'dun grub, 1391-1474), who was retrospectively identified as the First Dalai Lama.Monlam Pelwa received many commentarial teachings on tantra including the Guhyasam! ja tantra

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from Sherab Senggye (shes rab seng ge, 1382-1445). He

successfully stood for an examination and presented a

demonstration in the Tsetang (rtse thang) Monastery on his

comprehension of the thirty-six volumes of texts that he had

thoroughly studied.

Monlam Pelwa then received teachings from Choje YontenGyatso (chos rje yon tan rgya mtsho, d.u.) at Sangpu (gsang

phu) and Jamyang Choje ('jam dbyangs chos rje, d.u.) at

Drepung Monastery. Thereafter he travelled to Tsang and gave

commentarial teachings at Tashilhunpo and Serkhang Gongma

(gser khang gong ma). He then returned to U and taught at Gyai

and Tsenyi Colleges of Sera Monastic University (se ra rgya'i

grwa tshang dang mtshan nyid grwa tshang). He also taught at

Tangkya (thang skya) monastery.

Monlam Pelwa was enthroned to the abbot's seat of Ganden Shartse College (dga' ldan shar rtse

grwa tshang) for which he successfully mediated certain disputes of Tseshar (rtse shar).Subsequently, he was enthroned to seat of the entire monastery as the Eighth Ganden Tripa in

1480. He served for about ten years, during which he also served as the abbot of Drepung

Monastic University starting in 1481. He gave many teachings on the topics of both sutra and

tantra during his tenure at both Ganden and Drepung monasteries and built the Jampai Podrang

(byams pa'i pho brang). Among his compositions, the best known is the Namdrel Tika (rnam 'grel

gyi Ti ka), a comprehensive commentary on Pramana.

Among Monlam Pelwa's disciples were Choje Lobzangpa (chos rje blo bzang pa, d.u.), Ne-tsopa

(ne tso pa, d.u.), Lodro Jampel (blo gros ’jam dpal d.u.), and Lechen Sonam Pelwa (las can bsod

nams dpal ba, d.u.).

Trichen Monlam Pelwa retired at the age of seventy-seven in 1490, and the following year, 1491,

the iron-pig year of the eighth sexagenary cycle, he passed into nirvana.

Source

Grags pa 'byung gnas. 1992. Gangs can mkhas grub rim byon ming mdzod . Lanzhou: Kan su'u mirigs dpe skrun khang, pp. 1576-77

Sde srid sangs rgyas rgya mtsho. 1989 (1698). Dga' ldan chos 'byung baiDU r+ya ser po. Beijing:

Krung go bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang, pp. 78-79.

Samten Chhosphel

August 2010

 

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