Kamadang monastery

Kamadang monastery

Kamadang temple, built in the 11th century AD, was originally a monastery of gadang sect. In the middle of the 11th century, because mojizhuoma created the Moji sect here, the temple belonged to the Moji sect. Mojilojizhuoma is a unique woman who created a school of style and played a positive historical role in improving the image of women at that time. In the 17th century, kamadang Temple gradually evolved into a Gelug temple.

brief introduction

Kamadang temple is located on a hillside about 2.5 kilometers east of SANGRI County in Shannan, Tibet. Originally built in the 11th century, it was a gadang monastery. In the middle and late 11th century, it was converted to the xixie sect (Moji sect). About the 17th century, it became a Gelug monastery, but it still retained some rituals of the xixie sect. Kamadang temple was destroyed during the cultural revolution and rebuilt in 1986. For the statue of mojilojizhuoma. Mojilojizhuoma is a unique woman who created a school of style in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. In Buddhism, she absorbed some advantages of gadang sect according to the teachings of the Greek hermeneutics, and handed down the Moji sect, which used the method of drumming to sing parish rituals, which was different from other sects. At that time, the Moji sect was widely spread in Tibet. In the case that the Buddhist calendar despises women, it undoubtedly plays a positive role in improving the status of women.

Related people

Moji luojizhuoma, the first female living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism, practised and created kamadang temple, the place of Xijie sect. Around the late 11th century, a famous nun came to kamadang temple. Her name was majilazhen. She practiced and preached in various parts of Tibet. Later, she became the Mingfei of the Indian monk PA dangbasangjie, who created her own sect, beating drums and singing sutras, and carrying forward the teachings. She can be said to be the first female living Buddha in Tibet and the first woman of an original religious sect. She lived to her nineties and sat in kamadang temple. The temple was completely destroyed in the "Cultural Revolution" and has been preliminarily restored.

Majiazhen lived in the 11th century AD. she is a famous female religious master yixicuojie in Tibet. She enjoys high prestige and influence in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. She paid homage to Padang basanjie, a famous Indian yogi at that time, studied and practiced Prajna Sutra, and gained unusual inner evidence and experience of Prajna's emptiness. She was the pioneer of the unique nengduan sect in Tibetan Buddhism and became the founder of nengduan sect. The doctrine of nengduan is based on the philosophical thought of manifesting Tantric law. The purpose is to get rid of life's distress and the root of life and death. The nun system of Tibetan Buddhism also came from majilazhen. This inheritance is called "Mo Jue", which means "women can be divided into two groups". There is no doubt that majiazhen has an irreplaceable unique position in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. She is considered to be the embodiment of the wisdom of the empty line mother. In addition, her religious theory and practice have become the prelude to the revival of Tibetan Buddhism. Her followers are all over Weizang, DUOKANG, duomai, Ali and other mining Tibetan areas. There are also many followers in Mongolia, Nepal and India. The religious thoughts of majarazhen had a profound influence on the religious thoughts of the following sects, such as Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug. It is worth mentioning that the nengduan sect founded by majilazhen is the only Tibetan Buddhism sect that has spread to India. It has unique Tibetan characteristics and has a great influence in India, Nepal and other countries. Therefore, this paper tries to make a review of the life of Maggie Jane, the main ideological content of nengdian school and some other issues, so as to teach the experts in this field.

traffic

SANGRI county has convenient transportation, and the main highway in the territory is the asphalt road from Zedang to SANGRI. More than 90% of the villages in the county are connected with roads. There are 27 kilometers of District roads, 119 kilometers of county roads and 47 kilometers of township roads in SANGRI county. It's more convenient to go here.

Travel Tips

diet

Shannan's catering is the same as that of other places in Tibet, mainly Sichuan cuisine. Restaurants run by Sichuan people can be found everywhere, and the cost is not expensive. You can eat enough for more than ten or twenty yuan. In the restaurant layout, whether high-end or simple design mostly reflects a strong national characteristics. We should talk about the Tibetan food with local characteristics, such as all kinds of enema, highland barley wine and butter tea, Yangzhuoyong air dried meat, cold yak tongue, steamed buns, zanrake, all kinds of pastries, as well as sweet tea, milk tea, yogurt, sausage, air dried meat, xiapuqing (meat pulp), etc.

get accommodation

There are many hotels in counties and towns, the prices are not very high, the accommodation price is convenient, but the sanitary conditions in some places are not very good.

Address: a hillside about 2.5km east of SANGRI County, Shannan City

Longitude: 92.033174

Latitude: 29.271896660284

Ticket information: free.

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