Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen

(Thubten) Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen or Thupten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wylie: thub-bstan 'jam-dpal ye-shes rgyal-mtshan (Dagpo, 1912 – Lhasa, 1947) was a Tibetan tulku and the fifth Reting Rinpoche.

Thubten Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen
ཐུབ་བསྟན་འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen, 1938
5th Reting Rinpoche
In office
1930–1947
Preceded byNgawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenpai Gyaltsen
Succeeded byTenzin Jigme Thutob Wangchuk
Regent of Tibet
In office
1934–1941
Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso
Preceded byvacant (last: 3rd Tsomonling Rinpoche)
Succeeded by3rd Taktra Rinpoche
Personal details
Born1912 (1912)
Dagpo, Gyaca, Tibet, Qing dynasty
Died1947 (aged 34–35)
Lhasa, Tibet

Life

Gyantsen played a significant role in Tibetan history as the one-time regent of the present (14th) Dalai Lama. On 26 January 1940, Gyantsen requested the Central Government of China to exempt Lhamo Dhondup from lot-drawing process using Golden Urn to become the 14th Dalai Lama.[1][2] The request was approved by the Central Government.[3] He was forced out of office and was succeeded in the beginning of 1941 by Taktra Rinpoche. Subsequently, he was alleged to have organized an uprising against his replacement. He died in 1947 in the prisons of Lhasa's Potala, apparently the victim of poisoning.[4][5] His jailor also allegedly reported that his testicles were bound and beaten until he died of the pain.[6]

The episode exposed a number of the political dimensions of the religious hierarchy in Lhasa. Critics of the fifth Reting Rinpoche accused him of widespread corruption, and involvement with married women as a monk.[7] Defenders alleged that his imprisonment was partly the result of his attraction to the teachings of the Nyingma lineage, a politically sensitive orientation,[8] and that the case against him had been fabricated by the cabinet minister Kapshopa.[6]

His successor was Tenzin Jigme Thutob Wangchuk as the sixth Reting Rinpoche, although this was challenged by another claimant, who styles himself Reting Hutukthu.

References
  1. Goldstein, Melvyn C. (18 June 1991). A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. University of California Press. pp. 328–. ISBN 978-0-520-91176-5.
  2. "Report to Wu Zhongxin from the Regent Reting Rinpoche Regarding the Process of Searching and Recognizing the Thirteenth Dalai lama's Reincarnated Soul Boy as well as the Request for an Exemption to Drawing Lots". The Reincarnation of Living Buddhas. Museum of Tibetan Culture of China Tibetology Research Center. 1940. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  3. "Executive Yuan's Report to the National Government Regarding the Request to Approve Lhamo Thondup to Succeed the Fourteenth Dalai lama and to Appropriate Expenditure for His Enthronement". The Reincarnation of Living Buddhas. Museum of Tibetan Culture of China Tibetology Research Center. 1940. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  4. Melvyn C. Goldstein; Gelek Rimpoche (January 1989). A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State. University of California Press. pp. 510–516. ISBN 978-0-520-06140-8.
  5. Barraux, Roland (1995) Die Geschichte der Dalai Lamas - Göttliches Mitleid und irdische Politik, Komet/Patmos, Frechen/Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-933366-62-3, p.p. 275-282 (German)
  6. Hisao Kimura; Scott Berry (1990). Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise. Serindia Publications. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-906026-24-3.
  7. Marcello, Patricia Cronin The Dalai Lama: A Biography. Greenwood Press: 2003
  8. Lobsang Gyatso (1 January 1990). Memoirs of a Tibetan Lama. Shambhala. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55939-990-6.
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