Dulduityn Danzanravjaa
Mongolian poet and musician (1803–1853)
Dulduityn Danzanravjaa (1803–1856) was a Mongolian polymath who variously worked as a writer, composer, painter, Buddhist scholar, physician. He was the fifth reincarnation (tulku or hutagt) of Noyon Khutagt, a Nyingma tulku lineage based in the Gobi Desert.
Name
Dulduityn Danzanravjaa's name is a Mongolian adaptation of the last part of the Tibetan name Lobsang Tenzin Rabgye, given to Danzanravjaa by the 4th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu after he was recognised as a tulku in 1812. His name is sometimes simply written as "Danzan Ravjaa", with a space. There are several versions concerning the origins and use of "Dulduityn".
Life
Danzanravjaa was born in the Tüsheet Khan aimag's Gobi Mergen Banner, in what is today Khövsgöl sum of Dornogovi aimag on 25th day of mid-winter month by lunar calendar. His family was poor, and his mother died while he was still young. He and his father survived by begging and singing until 1809, when he was accepted as a disciple of Ishdoniilhundev Rinpoche at Ongiin Monastery where the boy received the name of Luvsandanzanravja and the vows of a Buddhist layman. From an early age he showed much talent for music and poetry, wrote his first famous impromptu Khurmast Tenger (the Heavens) at age of seven. The literary and oratorical abilities in the boy made the locals to believe he was a tulku, so they appealed to the higher clergy for recognition of his next incarnation.
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