Geshe Sherab Gyatso

[1] After living in Lhasa for a period, he fell from favor with the establishment there in the 1930s and returned to his home in Amdo, an eastern Tibetan area.

When he was about 7 years old, he was taught the novice precepts by Norbu Gesi at the Gurü (Gulei) Monastery and was officially ordained as a monk, named "Sherab Gyatso", meaning the sea of wisdom.

Sherab Gyatso successively studied under Tewu Guanque, Gongtang Luo Zhecang, Si Shijia Muxiang, etc., and completed Hetuvidyā, Prajna and other courses with excellent grades.

During the period of Norbulingka Palace, Sherab Gyatso wrote more than ten kinds of works such as "Elucidation of Doubtful Definitions", "Immortal Vajra Thunderbolt" and "Ontology of Merit".

Others include Dbangchen Dgelegs (དབང་ཆེན་དགེལེགས), Lcanglocan Bsodnams Rgyalpo(ལྕང་ལོ་ཅན་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་པོ), Degesai Sonamwangdui, Tsarong Dazang Dradül(ཚ་རོང་ཟླ་བཟང་དགྲ་འདུལ), Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme and so on.

In the Central University, China, the Shanghai Great Bodhi Society etc., Sherab Gyatso made many cultural reports, introducing Master Tsongkhapa, the order of the Tao, the history of the Gelug school, etc., during which Yang Zhifu served as the translator.

In 1940, the Kuomintang named Sherab Gyatso as "Auxiliary Teacher Xuanji Chan Master" because of his "sincere protection of the country, deep worthy of Jiashang" (护国精诚，深堪嘉尚), along with two large and small silver seals.

In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek sent Sherab Gyatso to Lhasa, intending to win the favor of the big monastery for the Nationalist government.

On July 23, 1947, the National Government appointed Sheran Gyatso and Serengdongrub (Bai Yun-ti) as vice-chairmen of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission.

In the same year, the fifth generation of the master of the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County, Gansu, Jamyang Zhépa passed away, and Sherab Gyatso went to offer condolences on behalf of the National Government.

In the autumn of 1951, Sherab Gyatso personally came to the Jianzhaangla area of Qinghai to do the work of organizing and settling a thousand Tibetan households.

Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shaoqi and other state leaders have praised Sherab Gyatso for his contribution to national unity.

In November 1952, Sherab Gyatso and Xuyun, Yuanying, Zhao Puchu and others initiated the establishment of the Chinese Buddhist Association.

In this regard, Sherab Gyatso delivered a speech, firmly supporting the government and opposing "Tibetan separatist movements".

In 1960, in order to commend Sherab Gyatso's achievements, the State Council of the People's Republic of China specially presented a large bronze bell weighing more than 2,000 kilograms from the Ming Dynasty to Sherab Gyatso and sent a special vehicle to Gulei Temple in Xunhua, Qinghai.

Sherab Gyatso once again led a Chinese Buddhist delegation to attend and shook hands with the monks and kings of the two Cambodian factions.

At the National Work Conference held in Beijing from April 21 to May 29, 1962, Sherab Gyatso made a sharp criticism of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party: "I want to tell the truth today, you have some practices.

I will also learn from you, using a few numbers, to talk about your problems in the past few years: The first is telling lies, the second is not admitting mistakes, the third is messing with people, the fourth is lacking the Buddha’s mind, and there is no humane way…”.

About fifteen manuscripts of Sherab Gyatso's lectures in Lhasa were brought to Nanjing in 1936 and stored in the Ganqingning Hall, but were bombed by Japanese aircraft in 1937.