84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཞ་ལུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཞ་ལུ།

  • ཞྭ་ལུ།
  • zha lu
  • zhwa lu
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  • Zhalu
  • ཞ་ལུ།
  • ཞྭ་ལུ།
  • zha lu
  • zhwa lu
Definition in this text:

The name of a monastery and a myriarchy in the Tsang region of Central Tibet. Zhalu is among the oldest monasteries in Tibet, with some structures dating to the first half of the eleventh century ᴄᴇ. The monastery was affiliated with the Kadampa school and had close ties with the Sakya school during parts of the Yuan period. The famous scholar and Tibetan Buddhist canon redactor Butön Rinchen Drup (bu ston rin chen grub, 1290–1364) became abbot of Zhalu in 1320, which marks the beginning of a new lineage called bu lugs tshul (“Tradition of Butön”) or zhwa lu pa (“Those of Zhalu”).

  • Zhalu
  • ཞ་ལུ།
  • zha lu
Definition in this text:

A famous Sakya monastery near Shigatse that was founded in 1022.