All Shangpa sites for Operating Status Active

Ringa Chödé Monastery (or Tanak Rikhar)

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rin dga’ chos sde dgon / rta nag ri mkhar dgon

རིན་དགའ་ཆོས་སྡེ། རྟ་ནག་རི་མཁར།

Originally a Shangpa site founded in 1050, converted to Geluk in 1600. It seems to be the same place called rta nag ri mkhar, this information has to be confirmed.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Shetongmon

    • Bokar Monastery

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    ‘bo dkar dgon (‘bo dkar glang dgon bkra shis rab brtan gling)

    འབོ་དཀར་དགོན།

    Karma Kagyu monastery founded in late 19th century, operates as a Shangpa site.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Tsochen

    • Dzongshö Retreat Center

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    rdzong shod dgon (rdzong shod bde gshegs ‘dus pa’i pho brang)

    རྫོང་ཤོད་དགོན།

    Dzongshö was founded by Jamgon Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé in 1877. The retreat center is run by Lama Künzang Yeshé.

  • Site Type: Retreat Center
  • Site Location: Palyul

    • Chung Riwoche

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    cung ri bo che (dpal ri bo che dgon e waM dga’ ‘khyil)

    ཅུང་རི་བོ་ཆེ།

    Stupa founded in the 14th century, then re-established and built in the year 1426 by the Tibetan mahasiddha Tantong Gyelpo. Seat of the Chakzampa (lcags zam pa) sub-lineage of the Shangpa Kagyu.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Ngamring

    • Mokchok Nyethang Hermitage

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    rmog lcog ri khrod (snye/mnyes thang rmog lcog)

    རྨོག་ལྕོག་རི་ཁྲོད། སྙེ་ཐང་རྨོག་ལྕོག །མཉེས་ཐང་རྨོག་ལྕོག

    Hermitage founded by the early Shangpa master Mokchok Rinchen Tsondru. Currently under the governance of Drepung Monastery.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Chushur

    • Zhangzhong Monastery

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    zhang zhong rdo rje gdan
    (sometimes spelled zhang zhang or zhong zhong)

    ཞང་ཞོང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན། ཞང་ཞང་། ཞོང་ཞོང་།

    Original seat of the Shangpa Kagyu order. Founded by Khyungpo Neljor. Recently rebuilt.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Shang - Namling