三世普布觉活佛洛桑楚臣强巴嘉措生卒年份考辨

An Investigation of the Birth Year and Death Year of the Third Living Buddha of Phur-ljog Temple

清代拉萨市普布觉寺的三世活佛洛桑楚臣强巴嘉措历任十二世达赖喇嘛的副师傅,八世班禅额尔德尼的戒师,十三世达赖喇嘛的副师傅、正师傅和戒师,是西藏历史上著名的活佛,具有很高的宗教地位和政治地位,但其出生年份历来不详,学术界对其圆寂年份也存在争议。清代史料表明:三世普布觉活佛出生于道光五年(1825),藏历铁牛年(光绪二十七年,1901年)十一月十八日圆寂,享年77岁。

The third living Buddha of Phur-ljog Temple who played an important role in Tibetan history was the teacher of the twelfth and thirteenth Dalai Lama. His birth year was not known before. There are some contradictory statements about the year of his death in the academia of China. Some reliable memorials to the emperors of Qing Dynasty proved that he was born in 1825,and died in 1901 in his seventy-seventh year.