Lama Ciren
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Lama Ciren was director of the democratic management committee of Tashilhunpo Monastery and vice-chairman of the Shigatse Prefectural Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. From 1927 he studied cham at the Zigungkang dratsang (monastic college) of Tashilhunpo Monastery, and to this day he takes part each year in the monastery's Semqenqen festival performances. Lama Ciren had a comprehensive command of the performance systems of the Gutor cham of the monastery's tantric college and of the Semqenqen cham of the Zigungkang dratsang. His writings include a monograph on the theory and dance of the Semqenqen cham of Tashilhunpo Monastery.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Tibetan, born in 1920, died in 2011, a native of Shigatse, Tibet. A national representative bearer of the Cham Dance of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. For many years he took the leading roles in cham and, together with Lama Mima, trained more than eighty cham disciples, making an important contribution to the rescue, revival and transmission of the cham of Tashilhunpo Monastery.
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