L.L.Choedakla , Thank you for this great history that we must keep for our future generations. Hope you have this in a book if not. Please do so for sake of our future.I thank you very much for myself and for our next generation. Thanks again sir.
I am obliged to return here after watching the new video clip on Jokhang to say thank you again so much Mr. Lhakpa Tsering la for sharing your wonderful in-depth knowledge! I long to hear more amazing things from you in near future! . རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རངས་ཞུ།
You made a point! Me too, I don’t see why we need to expand its meaning beyond its origin and theorize it otherwise... even “if” something sounds as appealing. Lha-sa’s literal meaning itself articulates its title in precision. Let me explain: The title; (ལྷ་ས་འཕྲུལ་སྣང་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང།) in its purest Tibetan form screams the temple’s association with the name of the city of Lha-sa. Originally the city itself was formed surrounding the two most revered landmarks. The Jokhang , and the Ramoche temples which enshrine Tibet’s most precious Buddhist relics believed dated back to the time of the living Buddha. As a result have their profound significance and blessings of the living Buddha Shakyamuni himself. Subsequently the city derived its name “Lha-sa” the Land of the Buddha / God in his honor. If we disect the whole title further, we will understand this. Lhasa(ལྷ་ས་) “the land of the Gods” OR place where the Buddhas; Shakyamuni and Mikyo Dorjee (the 2 religiously most venerated “idols”of Buddhist in Tibet) dwell, (འཕྲུལ་སྣང་།) miraculous / miracle, and (གཙུག་ལག་།) which according to (ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་) can also mean “ཆོས་འཆད་སའི་ཁང་བའི་མིང་སྟེ། འདུ་ཁང་ཡང་ཟེར།” there fore (གཙུག་ལག་ ཁང་།) the Religious Center / temple. Thus, the title (ལྷ་ས་འཕྲུལ་སྣང་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།) / ‘Miracle Temple of the Land of the God” OR ‘The Land of the God’s Miracle Temple’ was established. In other words, to understand the title of the temple, we must first understand why the city was named Lhasa, and then find the connection between the name of the city and the name of the temple with little background information. 1. Lhasa City itself was the destination home or Land for the two most holy Buddha “idols” brought from China and Nepal since the city’s establishment in 7th century by king Songtsen Gampo. This in term served as the origin of the name ལྷ་ས་ 2. Legend tells Jokhang Temple’s foundation “miraculously”emerged from the Lake in the form of a Stupa after Princess Wenching’s ring fell in the lake, thus “འཕྲུལ་སྣང” 3. Jokhang Temple has since became “the most important religious center” in it's namesake city. ལྷ་ས་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། In conclusion, if we alternate Lha-sa in place of (ར་ས་) Ra-sa, the literal name ལྷ་ས་འཕྲུལ་སྣང་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། still indicates the term ལྷ་ས་འཕྲུལ་སྣང་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། is only “Tibetan” in origin, and in sheer context shows it derived first part of its title from its locational city’s name. ལྷ་ས་འཕྲུལ་སྣང་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། Miracle Temple of the Land of the God” OR ‘The Land of the God’s Miracle Temple.
Lhagang L Lhagan Lobsang Choedak is a great master. I would thank him for telling us this important history. Hope this in the book. Everybody need to know this one for ssure. Thanks again.
If you have this much access, why don't you show each of the holy objects and explain. In that way it would be much more helpful to the viewers. Otherwise just verbal explanation is boring and people might stop viewing further more. འགྲེམ་བཤད་མཉམ་དུ་དངོས་སུ་མིག་སྟོན་གནང་ན་ལེགས་སྙམ།
དོ་འཁུར་ལམ་སྟོན་གནང་བ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། རྗེས་སོར་དུས་ཁོམས་བྱུང་ན་བརྙན་པར་དང་ལྷན་དུ་བསྐྱར་སྒྲིགས་ཞུས་ཆོག་་་་་Thank you for ur good suggestion and will try to re-edited if time permitted ...🙏🙏
