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།
  • Site Location: Namling
  • Operating Status: Active

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

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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 Tsartsar Drubgen Drakpa Gyaltsen (BDRC P6690). The retreat center is run by Lama Karma Könchok.

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Gönpo Monastery

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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།
  • Date Established: 14th cent.
  • Site Location: Shetongmon
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Current Tradition: Shangpa

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

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Kyergang Monastery

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    stod lung skyer sgang dgon (‘bal skyer sgang)

    སྟོད་ལུང་སྐྱེར་སྒང་དགོན།
  • Date Established: 12th cent.
  • Site Location: Thölung-Dechen
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Current Tradition: Shangpa

    • 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.

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