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About Lingshed Monastery |
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Lingshed Monastery or Lingshed Gompa is a Gelugpa Buddhist
monastery in the Zanskar region in the state of Ladakh in
Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The Jangchub Tensung
Dorje Center was constructed in Lingshed by Kyabje Dagom
Rinpoche.The ceremonial life of Lingshed Monastery and its
monks is the subject of Identity.
The monastery houses about 60 monks and is on the route
between Zanskar and Lamayuru. It serves the surrounding
villages of Lingshed, Yulchung, Skyumpata, Nyeraks, Gongma ,
and Dibling. The monastery consists of six principal shrines,
store rooms, and kitchens - on its uppermost floor - an
apartment for Ngari Rinpoche or other visiting high lamas.
Below the central temple complex, monastic quarters (shak) fan
out in long lines. Lingshed monastery also maintains outlying
temples in each of the villages it serves.
It is marked on an early survey map as 'Linshot' and is four
marches south of Khalatse. There were two sons of La-chen-Bha-gan
(c. 1470-1500 CE), the third king of the Second West Tibetan
Dynasty. The younger son had the eyes of his elder brother,
Lha-chen-Lha-dbaṅ-rnam-rgyal (c. 1500-1532), put out and then
he took the throne. "Still, for the continuance of the race,
he stationed him, together with his wife at Liṅ-sñed" where
his wife bore three sons. |
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History of Lingshed Village |
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Lingshed Village, at the heart of the Trans-Sengge-La region
between Ladakh and Zanskar, has been inhabited for almost a
thousand years. It was originally presumed to be a local hunting
area, which is the source of its name. The village has been the
site of various Buddhist monasteries: the remnants of a cave
monastery and two walls dedicated to the translator Rinchen
Zangpo (958–1055). Local tradition in the region also speaks of
Kadampa and Drugpa Kagyu monasteries in the valley.
Lingshed Monastery was founded as a Geluk School Monastery in
the 1440s by Changsems Sherabs Zangpo, disciple of the noted
Tibetan preceptor Je Tsongkhapa. Local custom records how
Sherabs Zangpo, having constructed Phugtal and Karsha
Monasteries to the south, travelled over Hanuma-La Pass to the
south of Lingshed, from where he saw an 'auspicious shining
light' shining on a rock on the hillside. He built a chorten
around that rock, and this became the basis of Kumbum's central
shrine, Tashi 'Od Bar ('Auspicious Shining Light' shrine).
In 1779, the Ladakhi king Tsewang Namgyal donated the lands of
Lingshed and its surrounding villages (along with the Zanskari
monasteries and villages of Mune, Karsha, Rangdum and Phuktal)
to Lobsang Gelek Yeshe Dragpa, the 3rd incarnate of the Ngari
Rinpoche lineage. In 1783, Ngari Rinpoche founded Rangdum
Monastery on the boundary of the Karsha Valley as his
ecclesiastical seat, to which Lingshed is subordinate. |
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