Nangchen Gar is a Drukpa Kagyu monastery lies in the southeast of Nangchen county. The monastery houses several hundred monks. This monastery is divided in a lower and an upper part. The upper part is the most lively. The location of the upper part is quite spectacular seen from below. …
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Dzamthang monasteries are located at a same place adjoining each other in the valley of mid Dzamthang. The largest three monasteries Tsangwa. Choje and Tsechu are formed a monastic city in this valley. Tsangwa Monastery གཙང་བ་དགོན་པ། Tsangwa Monastery is an important Jonang monastery that was founded in 1717 by Lodro …
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Drakar Tredzong monastery-The White Monkey Fortress is a rarely visited remote monastery in Amdo Tibet. It is one of the most famous monastery in Amdo and brings many pilgrims each year. The monastery is located at the base of 5000m mountain and earlier it had close to 1000 monks but …
Read More »Chubzang Monastery ཆུ་བཟང་དགོན་པ།
This old sacred monastery is one of the Four Northern Grand Monasteries.The monastery is situated in a small beautiful landscape, about 28km from nearest Gonlung county ( Huzhu in Chinese ) of Amdo Tibet and 44km from Xining city. Chuzang monastery is Gelugpa sect monastery, founded in 1649 by first …
Read More »Shachung Monastery བྱ་ཁྱུང་དགོན་པ།
Shachung monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in Eastern Tibet and the oldest of Four Northern Grand monasteries. It was founded in1349 by Chojye Dhondup Rinchen and situated in Palung county of Amdo Tibet, about 113km from Xining city. Paradise on earth, Shachung was built on a mountain ridge …
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