All Shangpa sites for Operating Status Active

Thobgyal Dechen Hermitage

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thob rgyal bde chen ri khrod

ཐོབ་རྒྱལ་བདེ་ཆེན་རི་ཁྲོད།

Important hermitage in the Shangpa history near lang gro village, now replaced by Gaden Rabgye monastery (dga’ ldan rab rgyas dgon).

  • Site Type: Hermitage
  • Site Location: Namling

    • Rigong Monastery

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    yol ri gong gi dgon pa

    ཡོལ་རི་གོང་གི་དགོན།

    Shangpa Kagyü monastery in Yölpu (yol phu / yol bu). Visited in 1599 by Jetsün Taranatha.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Chushur

    • Khamgo Nunnery

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    kha mgo dgon

    ཁ་མགོ་དགོན།

  • Site Type: Nunnery
  • Site Location: Kardzé - Kandzè

    • Bengen Retreat Center

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    ban rgan dgon (bsam gtan chos rdzong gling)

    བན་རྒན་དགོན། བསམ་གཏན་ཆོས་རྫོང་གླིང་།

    Bengen monastery was founded by Lama Wangchen. The retreat center is run by Lama Tandrin Wangyel.

  • Site Type: Retreat Center
  • Site Location: Kardzé - Kandzè

    • Ridrak Monastery

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    ri brag dgon pa

    རི་བྲག་དགོན་པ།

    Birthplace of Kalu Rangjung Künchab who lived in the monastery in his early years. Recently rebuild in a safer place close to the original location.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Kardzé - Kandzè

    • Tsokha / Tsokar Retreat Center

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    mtsho kha dgon (byang chub bde chen ‘od gsal gling)

    མཚོ་ཁ་དགོན། བྱང་ཆུབ་བདེ་ཆེན་འོད་གསལ་གླིང་།

    Tsokha monastery was established by the first Dzigar Kongtrül, Karma Ngawang Lodrö Rabpel, near Neten Monastery (gnas brtan dgon). The retreat center is run by Lama Thubten Gelek.

  • Site Type: Retreat Center
  • Site Location: Chamdo

    • Tsartsar / Tsabtsa Retreat Center

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    tshar tshar dgon, tshab tsha (bsam grub chos rdzong gling)

    ཚར་ཚར་དགོན། ཚབ་ཚ། བསམ་གྲུབ་ཆོས་རྫོང་གླིང་།

    Karma Kagyü monastery founded by Drubchok Kagyü Tenzin. The retreat center is run by Lama Karma Könchok.

  • Site Type: Retreat Center
  • Site Location: Degé

    • Gönpo Monastery

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    mgon po dgon

    མགོན་པོ་དགོན།

    Originally a Shangpa site, converted to a Karma Kagyü in 1673. Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Nangchen

    • Tanak Dorje Den Monastery

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    rta nag rdo rje gdan (sa rdo rje gdan)

    རྟ་ནག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན། རྟ་ནག་རི་མཁར་དགོན།

    Shangpa site founded by Pago Kunga Zangpo, the great-grandfather of Dalai Lama II Gendun Gyatso, in Tanak valley, west of Shang valley.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Shetongmon

    • Kyergang Monastery

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    stod lung skyer sgang dgon (‘bal skyer sgang)

    སྟོད་ལུང་སྐྱེར་སྒང་དགོན།

    Also called Rakor (rwa skor dgon pa). Ancestral monastery of the early Shangpa master Kyergangpa Chokyi Sengge (1154-1217), affiliated with the zhije practice tradition. Located in Thölung (stod lung) near Lhasa.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Thölung-Dechen