All Shangpa sites for Site Type Monastery

Bongshö Riwoché Monastery

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Shomara Monastery

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    sho ma ra (‘phan yul sho ma ra’i dgon)

    ཤོ་མ་ར་དགོན
  • Date Established: 11th cent.
  • Site Location: Lhündrup
  • Operating Status: Ruined

    • Early site visited by Khyungpo Naljor to receive Mahamudra teachings. Now in ruins.

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Mokchok Lhaphu Monastery

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    rmog lcog dgon / lha phu rmog lcog

    རྨོག་ལྕོག་དགོན། ལྷ་ཕུ་རྨོག་ལྕོག་གི་དགོན།
  • Date Established: 12th cent.
  • Site Location: Shang - Namling
  • Operating Status: Ruined

    • Monastery established by Mokchok Rinchen Tsöndrü.

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Kuklung / Kuluk Monastery

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    lha phu lkugs lung gi dgon pa / sku lugs dgon pa / lkug lung

    ལྷ་ཕུ་ལྐུགས་ལུང་གི་དགོན། སྐུ་ལུགས་དགོན་པ། ལྐུག་ལུང་།
  • Date Established: 12th cent.
  • Site Location: Shang - Namling
  • Operating Status: Ruined

    • Ancient Shangpa Kagyü built near Mokchokpa retreat in Laphu valley.

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Rigong Monastery

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    yol ri gong gi dgon pa

    ཡོལ་རི་གོང་གི་དགོན།
  • Date Established: 13th cent. ?
  • Site Location: Chushur
  • Operating Status: Active

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

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Bengen Retreat Center

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    ban rgan dgon (bsam gtan chos rdzong gling)

    བན་རྒན་དགོན། བསམ་གཏན་ཆོས་རྫོང་གླིང་།
  • Site Location: Kardzé - Kandzè
  • Operating Status: Active

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

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Ridrak Monastery

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    ri brag dgon pa

    རི་བྲག་དགོན་པ།
  • Date Established: Late 18th century
  • Site Location: Kardzé - Kandzè
  • Operating Status: Active

    • 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.

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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་།
  • Date Established: Early 20th century
  • Site Location: Chamdo
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Current Tradition: Shangpa

    • 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.

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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་།
  • Date Established: 1575
  • Site Location: Degé
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Current Tradition: Shangpa
  • Former Tradition: Karma Kagyu
    • tsar tsar

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

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