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Luosang Tudeng Jiacuo
Qing-era living Buddha of Guangzong Monastery in Alxa, also called Wenduer Gegen, who shaped the monastery's cham dance from Tibetan Buddhist ritual dance.
Mural of the cultural record “Mongolian and Northern Peoples' Dance”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Wenduer Gegen
Luosang Tudeng Jiacuo, also called Wenduer Gegen, was a living Buddha of Guangzong Monastery (the South Monastery) in Alxa under the Qing; heritage records name him its first-generation living Buddha, but little else is recorded of his life. The monastery was founded in 1757. Between 1764 and 1778 he reworked Tibetan Buddhist ritual dance into the Guangzong cham, a sequence of fourteen sections performed to avert disaster and protect all beings. From then until 1960 the Guangzong cham was danced without a break in the major monasteries of Alxa, training a line of cham masters, and it is now part of the national intangible heritage listing for cham.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; created the Guangzong Monastery cham between 1764 and 1778