The Seventy-Second Ganden Tripa, Jampel Tsultrim
The Seventy-Third Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso who succeeded Jampel Tsultrim to the Golden Throne of Gaden. Image credit: himalayanart.org. Click on image to enlarge.
དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་པ ༧༢ འཇམ་དཔལ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
b.mid 18th cent. – d.mid 19th cent.
Tradition: Geluk དགེ་ལུགས།
Geography: Tsang གཙང།
Historical Period: 18th Century ༡༨ དུས་རབས། / 19th Century ༡༩ དུས་རབས།
Institution: Ganden དགའ་ལྡན་།; Sera Monastery སེ་ར།; Gyume Dratsang རྒྱུད་སྨད་གྲྭ་ཚང།; Sera Je སེ་ར་བྱེས།; Drati House སྦྲ་ཏི་ཁང་ཚན།
Offices Held: Seventy-second Ganden Tripa of Ganden
Name Variants: Ganden Trichen 72 Jampel Tsultrim དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཆེན ༧༢ འཇམ་དཔལ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།; Jampel Tsultrim འཇམ་དཔལ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།; Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso འཇམ་དཔལ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།; Khamlung 01 Jampel Tsultrim ཁམས་ལུང ༠༡ འཇམ་དཔལ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།
The Seventy-second Ganden Tripa, Jampel Tsultrim (dga’ ldan khri pa 72 ‘jam dpal tshul khrims) was born in Tobgyel Kharlung Nangpa in Tsang (gtsang thob rgyal mkhar lung nang pa), presumably not earlier than the late third quarter of eighteenth century and third decade of the thirteenth sexagenary cycle.
Details regarding his life are sparse. Jampel Tsultrim matriculated in the Drati House of Sera Je College of Sera Monastic University (ser byes sbra ti khang tshan) and, presumably, he was ordained and educated there, earning the degree of Geshe Lharampa. It can also be assumed that he studied tantra at Gyume College in Lhasa since those who hold the office of Ganden Tripa complete their studies in tantra at either of the Tantric Colleges – Gyuto or Gyume – prior to becoming either the Shartse Choje (shar rtse chos rje) — those coming from Gyuto — or Jangtse Choje (byang rtse chos rje) — those from Gyume — before advancing to the Golden Throne. Jampel Tsultrim was certainly Jangtse Choje prior to his enthronement as Ganden Tripa. According to sources Reting Tritrul Tenpa Rabgye (rwa sgreng khri sprul bstan pa rab rgyas, 1759-1815) was his main teacher.
A recent picture of Gyuto, the Upper Tantric College, one of the two main Gelug tantric colleges of central Tibet. Image credit: Treasury of Lives. Click on image to enlarge.
Jampel Tsultrim became the Seventy-second Ganden Tripa in 1831, the iron-hare year of the fourteenth sexagenary cycle, and served the customary seven years, until 1837. He also served as tutor to the Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khedrub Gyatso (ta la’i bla ma 11 mkhas grub rgya mtsho, 1838-1856).
He was succeeded by Trichen Ngawang Jampel Tsultrim Gyatso (khri chen ngag dbang ‘jam dpal tsul khrims rgya mtsho, 1792-1855) who was born in Chone in Amdo.
Among his known disciples were the Third Purchok, Jampa Gyatso (phur lcog 03 byams pa rgya mtsho, 1825-1901), Drakpa Tsondru (grags pa brtson ‘grus, d.u.), and Lobzang Tenpai Gyeltsen, the Third Rongta Chetsang (rong tha che tshang 03 blo bzang bstan pa’i rgyal mtshan, 1782-1857).
According to sources, Jampel Tsultrim was the first in the line of Khamlung (khams lung) lamas of Sera Je Monastery but details of other incarnations of this line are not known. It should be noted that a standard source for biographies of the Ganden Tripas, ‘Jam mgon rgyal ba’i rgyal tshab gser khri rim byon rnams kyi khri rabs yongs ‘du’i ljon bzang, mistakenly conflates the Seventy-second Tripa with the Seventy-third.
Teachers
- The Second Reting Rinpoche, Lobzang Yeshe Tenpa Rabgye རྭ་སྒྲེང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ ༠༢ བློ་བཟང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྟན་པ་རབ་རྒྱས། b.1759 – d.1815
Students
- The Third Purchok, Jampa Gyatso ཕུར་ལྕོག ༠༣ བྱམས་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ། b.1825 – d.1901
- The Eleventh Dalai Lama, Khedrub Gyatso ཏ་ལའི་བླ་མ ༡༡ མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ། b.1838 – d.1855
- grags pa brtson ‘grus གྲགས་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས།
- blo bzang bstan pa’i rgyal mtshan བློ་བཟང་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན། b.1782 – d.1857
Bibliography
- Bstan pa bstan ‘dzin. 1992. ‘Jam mgon rgyal wa’i rgyal tshab gser khri rim byon rnams kyi khri rabs yongs ‘du’i ljon bzang. Mundgod: Drepung Gomang Library, p. 106.
- Grong khyer lha sa srid gros lo rgyus rig gnas dpyad yig rgyu cha rtsom ‘bri au yon lhan khang. 1994. Dga’ ldan dgon pa dang brag yer pa’i lo rgyus, grong khyer lha sa’i lo rgyus rig gnas deb 02. Lhasa: Bod ljongs shin hwa par ‘debs bzo grwa khang, p.75.
Source: Samten Chhosphel, “The Seventy-Second Ganden Tripa, Jampel Tsultrim,” Treasury of Lives, accessed August 05, 2018, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Trichen-72-Jampel-Tsultrim/5485.
Samten Chhosphel is an independent scholar with PhD from the Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS) at Sarnath, Varanasi, India. He has a Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, Boston, MA. After serving as the In-charge of Publication Department of CUTS for 26 years, he immigrated to the United States in 2009 and is currently an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, and Language Associate in Columbia University.
Published January 2011
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