Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Teacher (Lama) - Teacher

བླ་མ། 喇嘛
(item no. 16856)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1400 - 1499
Lineages Jonang (Sakya) and Buddhist
Material Metal
Collection Private
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Appearance: Monastic

Gender: Male

Interpretation / Description

Gonpo Paldzin. Panchen Chogle Namgyal.

There are two famous teachers with the title and name Panchen Chogle Namgyal. The more well known of the two is Bodong Panchen (1376-1451 [TBRC P2627]) a student of Tegchen Choje Kunga Tashi. The slightly lesser known but chronologically earlier is Jonang Panchen (1306-1386 [P152]) a student of Dolpopa Sonam Gyaltsen. These two figures can be easily confused if there are no clear inscriptions on sculpture or surrounding contextual figures on paintings.

Jeff Watt 9-2020

༄༅།། ན་མོ་འགུ་རུ། །རྒྱུད་མཛིན་འགོན་པོ་དཔལ་མཛིན་གྱི། །ཐུགས་དགོངས་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་གྱུར་ནས། །འགྲོའ་མང་ཐར་པའི་ལམ་ལ་འགོད། །དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་ཞབས་ལ་འདུད། །དཔན་ཆེན་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ལ་ན་མོ།།

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