Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten

Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten (Tibetan: བློ ་ བཟང ་ ཆོས ་ ཀྱི ་ རྒྱལ ་ མཚན ་ ་, Wylie: Blo-bzang Chos-kyi Rgyal-mtshan) (1570 - 1662) was the first nobody to receive the title of Panchen LAMA which was given to him by the 5th Dalaï Lama. In its visions, the 5th Dalaï Lama, Lobsang Gyatso, recognized three of its preceding incarnations retrospectively. Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten was thus indicated as being the 4th Panchen LAMA.

To the 17th century, the 5th Dalaï Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617 - 1682), gave the monastery of Tashilhunpo to its professor, Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten , which was the 15th abbot of this monastery. As an abbot of the monastery of Tashilhunpo, it was called Panchen, but it received the distinctive title of “Panchen LAMA” when the 5th Dalaï Lama announced with dead of its professor that this last reappears like a recognizable child-successor. The 5th Dalaï Lama thus initiated the line of reincarnation of the Panchen LAMA to which it allotted the title the emanation of the Buddha Amitabha.

Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten wrote many texts on will soutras and tantras, of which the offering with the spiritual Master and the Main Way of the Conquerors on the Mahamoudra. The tradition Kagyu was the first to transmit the teaching of the Mahamoudra, adopted later on inside the tradition Gelugpa on the initiative of Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten giving rise to the Ganden-Kagyu tradition.

4th Panchen LAMA also composed a poem in 17 stanzas over the process of dead and the intermediate period between death and the following life. The 14th Dalaï Lama wrote a comment on this poem. He declares on this subject: the poem of First Panchen LAMA Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen in 17 stanzas proposes specific Buddhist techniques which will make it possible to overcome the fear of dead and to use the stages of them to advance our spiritual progress. I have the hope that this description of the experiments and the physical transformations will provide a meditation useful to those which feel concerned by the death and the major levels of the spirit.

References

  • the Dalaï Lama: To overcome death, and to live a better life Comment of a poem of 4th Panchen LAMA (Plon, 2003, ISBN 2259198597)

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