Many Doors ( Tib. sgo mang)

Drung Dhakpa Rinchen, one of the eight closest disciples of Jhe Tsong Kha Pa who were known as the eight upholders of Buddha Dharma with their vast knowledge in both grounds,

who professed as the best mind in the vast knowledge-field of Buddha Dharma, both Sutric and Tantric teachings, presided over as the first teaching master of Drepung Gomang monastery.

He, as in accordance with the instructive lead of Jamyang Choeje, began by imparting with the teachings, both by Lord Buddha and his Indian adept followers/scholars, of vast Buddhist thoughts and science that left this unique vestige for the coming Gomang students:

To study the texts of Jhe Tsong Kha Pa and his closest adept disciples and of Kunkhen and his son-like closest disciples as to wield as the key to open the treasure safe of the texts of the Indian Pundits and thereby to open the treasure safe of Lord Buddha’s profound teachings.

The relevant fact of how this monastic university came into known as Tashi Gomang is as follows:

As it is the first in rank as cited above that marked as the outset of great learning center and from its significant example came the following six colleges, the first phrase Tashi responds to its initial auspiciousness;

Gomang responds to its possession of many great minds that explored through the many doorways of vast Indian and Tibetan Buddhist works.

As in the work of His Holiness the 5th Dalai Lama, he praises:

The radiantly intuitive reasoning means
That pervade through the deep insights of Dharma-works,
The myriad doorways of the knowledge field,
What the enlightened ones and the sons extol.
And the commune of such practitioners and learners,
Pray that those great mastery minds bear longevity ever!

And here the commune refers to Tashi Gomang and the latter phrase is revealed.

When Drung Dhakpa Rinchen, the closest son-like disciple of Jhe Jamyang Choeje, took over as the teaching master of Gomang college,

Kunkhen Musepa, one of the two core adept disciples of Jhe Tsong Kha Pa, acted as the additional master who taught and learned and

there happened the dramatic competitiveness between the two great minds that fuelled the furthering of deeper learning and contemplation.

It was, however, of the case of the latter great mind’s rather twisting misinterpretation of the philosophy)ultimate reality Emptiness with its touch with the alien interpretation known as Shentong

that he was academically criticized or disturbed by some and also when the time had come for his founding Sera Jeh college that he hurriedly wrote his poetic piece Yonten Kyilkhor (The Mandala of Knowledge) that extols and evokes the adeptness and sublimity of Body, Speech and Mind of his root-master Jamyang Choeje, and left involuntarily towards Sera from Drepung.

And later, some senior monks/Geshe, who were his students, of Gomang followed him to Sera and thereby Sera Jeh college was founded.

At later stages, Gomang produced many great minds like scholar Galab, Takla and so on and by their great talents and dedications many students from different parts of Tibet and Mongolia came into influx.

The monastery prospered rampantly in upholding Buddha Dharma through its unique system.

Gomang, Loseling, Deyang, Shagkor, Gyelwa or Tosamling, Dulwa, and Ngagpa.

Later these were reorganised into just four colleges: Ngagpa, Loseling, Gomang and Deyang.

Each college had its own abbot, syllabus, dormitories, kitchens, etc.

Drepung is devided into Gomang, Loseling, Ngakpa, and Deyang Colleges.

Many Doors ( Tib. sgo mang)

Drepung Loseling and Gomang are the main colleges that continue to train the students in traditional Drepung monastic educational training's.

The monks from Loseling and Gomang different colleges within Drepung had to go to each other for these geshe examinations.

So, two Gomang monks went to Loseling for these exams and the monks of Loseling had to debate with them.

What to deal with here after putting forth the bliss-seeking verse-form lines in advance is a brief about Drepung Gomang Monastic University, one of the most reputed centers ( the three great seats:

Drepung, Gaden and Sera) for learning, contemplating and practicing Tibetan Buddhist thoughts and science notably known as the second Nalanda University in Tibet.

As prophesied in Langsheg Sutra by Lord Buddha: When once Nagaraja Madhopa pledged Lord Buddha with a white conch, Lord Buddha handed it over to Maugalayana, one of his two closest attendants who possessed transcendental miracle-power, with blessed and instructive decree to take it to Gogpa Ri (Garlic Hill) at Gaden in Tibet and hide it there in the hill.

It adds that in the future the Bhiksu of Lotus-purity in nature would unearth it and it would thereafter be used as Tsogdhung, to be blown as the signaling medium for gathering to spiritual congregation.

And so Je Tsong Khapa, the founder of Yellow Hat Sect, did precisely unearth it from the site later in time as to hand it, the blessed and powerful mascot, over to one of his closest

disciples, Jamyang Choeje, with deep dedicated auspicious prayers to carry out the profound task of founding a monastery that bear the inevitable significance of flourishing Buddha Dharma for the welfare of sentient beings.

Thus, Jamyang Choeje, who professed the sublime infinite divinity of meritorious grace,

founded Drepung University, the knowledge industry of Buddhist studies in both academic and practical grounds, in the

year 1416, the fire monkey year of Tibetan almanac in the 7th Rabjung (60 years based [[Tibetan] system that equates the system of century in general).

As the revelation of prophesied message and dedicative prayers for auspicious significances continued to ensue with the burgeoning number of monk-students in their thousands from different

directions gathered to pursue Buddhist studies, Jamang Choeje optimized the rise of his meritorious significances by taking over the seat of Abbot General and residing and teaching there at

the head monastery and appointing Drung Dhakpa Rinchen, Khechok Lagdhenpa, Chokpa Jangchup Pal, Tsondue Dha, Rabchok, Kunrin and Lodoe Gyaltsen as teaching masters as to ramify later the

branches of the university in their own establishments in order beginning first from Gomang, Loseling, Dheyang, Dhulwa, Ngakpa, Gyalpa and Shakor—the seven monastic colleges came into being in ranking order that testifies the industries propagating many highly trained scholar-products in the upcoming times.