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| frame | Derge town from above with the [[Sakya monastery and the famed printing house in the center of town. In front of the line of white stupa is a school today, however, this was the former location of the Derge Royal Palace. (photo courtesy of Matthew Pistono)]] Dergé (Tib. སྡེ་དགེ་, Wyl. sde dge) — a region and also a town situated in Eastern Tibet. It was the birthplace of Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and is also the location of a famous Derge Printing House | printing house.
Name
The name 'Dergé' is often glossed as the place of the four aspects of wellbeing (Tib. སྡེ་བཞི་, sde bzhi) and the Ten positive actions | ten virtues (Tib. དགེ་བ་བཅུ་, dge ba bcu).
Further Reading
- Kessler, Peter. Die historischen Königreiche Ling und Derge. Laufende Arbeiten zu einem Ethnohistorischen Atlas Tibets (EAT), 1983
- Kolmaś, Josef. Genealogy of the Kings of Derge: Sde-dge'i Rgyal-rabs, Prague: Academia, 1968
- Kolmaś, Josef. 'Dezhung Rinpoche's Summary and Continuation of the Sde-dge'i Rgyal-rabs' in Acta Orientalia Hungarica, vol. 42 no. 1 (1988) 119-152.
- van der Kuijp, Leonard. 'Two Early Sources for the History of the House of Sde-dge' in Journal of the Tibet Society, vol. 8, 1988, pp. 1-20