Exploring Historical Information In Murals Of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries

In the holy land on the snowy plateau,Large and small temples like stars are all over the land.These temples are Tibetan museums,and the temple culture is also the basic of Tibetan tradition culture that has an influence on the each side of Tibetan politic,economic,education,and custom so on.From them,the fresco is an important one in the temple culture,which has a long history,inherits Tibetan excellent cultural heritage and contains rich subjects including religious,customs,history,legend,biography of Buddhism and other Tibetan arts culture.So the fresco let us see history through the special picture.Gonggar Qude Monastery is one of important Buddhist rites in Sakya sect.Gonggar Qude Monastery is famous on the quantity,content,and exquisite fresco which was drew by the master Kyentse Chinmo and is a rare treasure in the treasure house of Tibetan culture.Whatever in the history of Tibetan Buddhism or the history of Tibetan drawing,Gonggar Qude Monastery plays an important role.Therefore,so many scholars are eager to study the history,fresco or the religious dancing of the temple.In the studying of the academic articles,most of scholars mainly focus on art method and standard,and few refers to the social reality and historical information from the fresco.This paper mainly researches the history information which is disclosed from the fresco of the hall of Kamsum Wangdue in Gonggar Qude Monastery and makes a preliminary study of the relationship with Potala,Dalailama and Gelug sect.The paper consists of three chapters in addition to the introduction and conclusion.The first chapter is about the fresco of Gonggar Qude Monastery.The fresco mainly distributes in the great hall and side hall on the first floor,the fresco on the second floor.There are two sections mainly describes the content,distribution and present situation and so on.And The first section mainly draws Lama Tamba Sonam Gyentsen who was one of the red clothes of the three Patriarch from six foremost master of Sakya.The second chapter is the important one.The chapter makes further introduction about the secular history from the fresco in the hall of Kamsum Wangdue.And there are three sections including the regime layout of the fresco in the hall of Kamsum Wangdue,the introduction of main figure in the fresco and the relationship between Mongolia and Tibet which is disclose from the fresco.In the chapter,the writer makes contrast and recognition to the history figure Kamsum Wangdue,at the same time,analyze the fresco background at that time.The third chapter has three sections.and the chapter mainly studies the relationship with the fifth Dalai lama,Potala,and Gelug sect.The last chapter is the part of conclusion.The part outlines the fresco stages in the monastery culture.Moreover,there is simple calculation on the rich historical basis from the fresco in the history.