DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2024-9-152-162
SPIRITUAL MENTORS OF THE SHIRETUI TSUGOLSKY DATSAN GALSAN-ZHIMBA DYLGYROVA (1816‒1872)
Loschenkov Alexey Vyacheslavovich – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology SB RAS (Ulan-Ude, Russia).
E-mail: loshchenkov@mail.ru.
The article is devoted to the study of the biography of the Buryat Buddhist figure of the 19th century, the second abbot of the Tsugolsky datsan, G-Zh․ Dylgyrov. For the first time, a full-text translation of his autobiography from the Tibetan language has been introduced into scientific circulation: “List of names of teachers with whom there is a dharma connection”. A list of the names of 52 spiritual teachers of G.-Zh. Dylgyrov is presented, the names of the teachings and transmissions for the implementation of practice received from them are determined. The identities of these teachers are partially identified. A full-text comparison is made with a woodcut from the personal archive of the Tsugolsky lama Erdeni Bolotov, containing an extensive autobiography (55 p․) of G.-Zh․ Dylgyrov, which revealed a number of names of teachers not mentioned in the autobiography, their historical personalities are established.
