Drigung Thil Monastery (Wylie: bri gung mthil 'og min byang chub gling) is a monastery in Maizhokunggar County, Lhasa, Tibet founded in 1179. Traditionally...
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misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya...
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Tibet (and surrounding areas traditionally occupied by Tibetans). Drigung Monastery is one of the three most important jhator sites. The procedure takes...
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Lhasa (city) (section Temples and monasteries)
founder of Karma Kagyu school. It is the main Kagyu temple. The Drigung Monastery of the Kagyu Sect was founded in 1179 in Maizhokunggar County. It...
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Namgyal Monastery (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།, Wylie: rnam rgyal) (also often referred to as "Dalai Lama's Temple") is in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala, India. It is...
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Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་) is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet...
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Sakya tradition. Kagyu monasteries are mostly in Kham, eastern Tibet. Tsurphu and Ralung are in central Tibet: Drigung Monastery — the seat of the Könchog...
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Manmogang Monastery was a Buddhist monastery in Tsari to the southeast of Dakpo in the Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet. It was located near the border with...
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Mindrolling Monastery (Tibetan: སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: min-dröl-ling gön-pa, THL: smin-grol-gling dgon-pa, English: "Sublime Island of Ripening...
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khagan, at least nominally, gave authority over the Ngari area to the Drigung Monastery in Ü-Tsang. Grags pa lde was an important ruler who united the Guge...
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Jokhang (redirect from Jokhang Monastery)
Chinese: 大昭寺), or the Ra sa 'phrul snang gtsug lag khang, or Qoikang Monastery, or Zuglagkang (Tibetan: གཙུག་ལག་ཁང༌།, Wylie: gtsug-lag-khang, ZYPY: Zuglagkang...
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Samding Monastery (Tibetan: ཡར་འབྲོག་བསམ་སྡིང་དགོན།) "The Temple of Soaring Meditation" is a 13th century gompa built on a hill along a narrow peninsula...
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Gelug university monasteries located in Dagzê County, Lhasa, Tibet. The other two are Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery. Ganden Monastery was founded in...
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county has various tourist attractions including hot springs and the Drigung Monastery. Meldro Gungkar means "The Place where Nagaraja Meldro lived" in Tibetan...
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sight of the Buddhist monastery of Khor-Biyong before being caught in an avalanche. Blessed Lightning, a monk at the monastery, has a vision of Tintin...
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Nechung (redirect from Nechung monastery)
Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: gnas-chung lcog, ZYPY: Naiqung Gönba) or Nechung Chok (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག, ZYPY:...
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the monastery. The Tibetan name for the site is Nampar Nangdze Lhakang. There is a temple here which was previously under the care of the Drigung Kagyu...
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Drepung Monastery (Tibetan: འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན་པ, Wylie: bras spungs dgon pa, THL: drépung gönpa, "Rice Heap Monastery"), located at the foot of Mount Gephel...
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regained much of their former authority in Ü. The abbot of the important Drigung Monastery in Ü, allied to the Tsangpa, was abducted by the Tumed Mongols in...
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Samye (redirect from Samye monastery)
Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen. Shantarakshita...
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Buchu Monastery, Buchu Sergyi Lhakhang, or Buchasergyi Lakang Monastery (Tibetan: བུ་ཆུ་གཟི་བྱིན་ལྷ་ཁང, Wylie: bu-chu gzi-byin lha-khang) is a temple...
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Yungbulakang Palace (category Buddhist monasteries in Tibet)
the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama (1617-82), the palace was turned into a monastery for the Gelug school. The Yumbu Lakhang was heavily damaged and reduced...
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the Yuan army under Temür Buqa [zh; ja], Kublai's grandson, burned Drigung Monastery and killed 10,000 people. Between 1346 and 1354, the Yuan dynasty...
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Milarepa's Cave, Nyalam (redirect from Pyenzhangling Monastery)
there is a small monastery (gompa) named Nyanang Pelgye Ling Monastery, or Phelgyeling which is built around the cave. The monastery's assembly hall has...
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Kathok Monastery (Tibetan: ཀཿཐོག་དགོན།, THL Kathok Gön), also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother...
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Drikung monasteries in Ladakh: three main and more than thirty branch monasteries. After the monastery was built, it specialised in Drigung teachings...
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today, the Drikung Kagyu (འབྲི་གུང་བཀའ་པརྒྱུད་པ) takes its name from Drigung Monastery founded by Jigten Sumgön, also known as Drikung Kyopa. The special...
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temple is one of the earliest known Drigung Kagyu prayer chambers to have survived in Ladakh. Wanla is a sub-monastery of Lamayuru, which provides a caretaker...
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Khan sends his grandson Buqa-Temür to Tibet to defeat the rebellious Drigung Monastery and restore Yuan authority 1292 Mongol invasion of Java: Yuan forces...
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This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...
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