Author:ཞུ་ཆེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རིན་ཆེན།
| ཞུ་ཆེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རིན་ཆེན། |
| སྡེ་དགེ་བཀའ་བསྟན་གྱི་ཞུ་དག་པ་ཞུ་ཆེན་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རིན་ཆེན། 1697 - 1774 |
Life
[edit]Zhuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (zhu chen tshul khrims rin chen) was born in 1697, the fire-ox year, near the monastery of Sakar Samdrub Ling (sa dkar bsam 'grub gling) in Denma (ldan ma), also known as Denpakar (ldan pa dkar) or Denkok (ldan khog), in Kham. In his autobiography he identifies his clan (rus) as the Zhangpa (zhang pa), which included many skilled artists such as Sanggye Lhawang (sangs rgyas lha dbang, sixteenth century), Lodro Gyatso (blo gros rgya mtsho, seventeenth century), and Karma Gyatso (karma rgya mtsho). His father was the artist Ngawang Chopel (ngag dbang chos 'phel, seventeenth century), also known as Lekshe Kunga Pel (legs bshad kun dga' 'phel). His mother, Buchok (bu chog), was Ngawang Chopel's second wife. Tsultrim Rinchen described her as a very pious Buddhist who maintained daily religious practices. The couple had two children. The elder child, Tsultrim Rinchen's sister, was named Kandro Kyab (mkha' 'gro skyabs). He was known by the name Tamdrin Zung (rta mgrin gzungs) when he was young.
Link: https://treasuryoflives.org/bo/biographies/view/Zhuchen-Tsultrim-Rinchen/10699