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Tholing Monastery: West Tibet Tibet Institute Rikon: Rikon, Switzerland Nyingma: Since 2007, the monastery comprises representatives of all four great traditions : Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug. Tingri Monastery Tsang Tradruk Temple: Lhokha Gelug The largest and oldest monastery in the Yarlung Valley. Said to have been built by King Songtsen ...
The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the Tibet Autonomous Region for which there are Wikipedia articles. Chokorgyel Monastery; Dorje Drak; Drepung Monastery; Drongtse Monastery; Dzogchen Monastery; Ganden Monastery; Jokhang Monastery; Kathok ...
Tibetan Buddhist monks at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. Kagyu monasteries are mostly in Kham, eastern Tibet. Tsurphu and Ralung are in central Tibet: Drigung Monastery — the seat of the Könchog Tenzin Kunzang Thinley Lhundrub; Palpung Monastery — the seat of the Tai Situpa and Jamgon Kongtrul; Ralung Monastery — the seat of the Gyalwang Drukpa
Samye (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་, Wylie: bsam yas, Chinese: 桑耶寺), full name Samye Mighur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang) and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, [1] is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen.
A separate Nyanang Phelgye Ling Monastery was set up by the Tibetan diaspora in Nepal in foothills of Swayambhunath, Kathmandu. Many holy relics were brought from Tibet by fleeing monks during the 1959 Tibetan uprising, which was suppressed by the Chinese government. The Kathmandu monastery was constructed in 1972.
Kunga Tashi and Incidents from His Life (Abbot of Sakya Monastery, 1688–1711) Sakya Monastery, Tibet in 1948 prior to its destruction Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth"), is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town ...
Yerpa (also known as Brag Yer-pa, Drak Yerpa, Druk Yerpa, Dagyeba, Dayerpa and Trayerpa) is a monastery and a number of ancient meditation caves that used to house about 300 monks, located a short drive to the east of Lhasa, Tibet.
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་) is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. Founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama , [ 1 ] it is the traditional monastic seat of the Panchen Lama .