Retreat Center

Rabjor Retreat Center

    rab ‘byor dgon (bkra shis chos rdzong gling)

    རབ་འབྱོར་དགོན། བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་རྫོང་གླིང་།
  • Date Established: 1745 ?
  • Site Location: Nangchen
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Founded by Karma Rabdrup Jinpa.

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Dzodzi Retreat Center

    mdzo rdzi (kun bzang dgyes pa’i dga’ tshal gling)

    མཛོ་རྫི། ཀུན་བཟང་དགྱེས་པའི་དགའ་ཚལ་གླིང་།
  • Site Location: Chamdo
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Dzodzi monastery was founded by Jé Drung Tenpé Gyaltsen. The retreat center is run by Lama Tsültrim Lodrö.

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Takpel Retreat Center

    rtags ‘phel (bde chen chos rdzong dar rgyas gling)

    རྟགས་འཕེལ་དགོན། བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་རྫོང་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།
  • Date Established: 1747
  • Site Location: Degé
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Takpel monastery was founded by the 7th Pelgya Trülku. The retreat center is run by Lama Phüntsok Namgyal.

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Damkar Retreat Center

    ‘dam dkar dgon (dpal ldan shangs pa’i gser chos gling)

    འདམ་དཀར། དཔལ་ལྡན་ཤངས་པའི་གསེར་ཆོས་གླིང་།
  • Site Location: Jyekundo - Yushu
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Damkar monastery was founded by 18th Dülmo Chojé Rinpoché, Karma Shedrup Trinlé Tenzin. The retreat center is run by Lama Yargyé.

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Benchen Retreat Center

    ban chen (sga stod ban chen, kun bde gling)

    སྒ་སྟོད་བན་ཆེན། ཀུན་བདེ་གླིང་།
  • Site Location: Jyekundo - Yushu
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Benchen monastery is the home of the Benchen Tülku among which was Tenga Rinpoché. It was founded by Laga Tenzin Chögyal. The retreat center is run by Lama Karma Drukdrak.

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Tsadra Rinchen Drak Retreat Center

    tsA ‘dra rin chen brag (kun bde gling)

    ཙཱ་འདྲ་རིན་ཆེན་བྲག །ཀུན་བདེ་གླིང་།
  • Date Established: 1857
  • Site Location: Degé
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Tsadra Rinchen Drak was the personal hermitage and retreat center of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé, founded by himself, located above Pelpung Monastery in Kham. The retreat center is run by Lama Yargyé.

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Bengen Retreat Center

    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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Tsokha / Tsokar Retreat Center

    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

    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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Dzongshö Retreat Center

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

    རྫོང་ཤོད་དགོན།
  • Date Established: 1877
  • Site Location: Palyul
  • Operating Status: Active
  • Current Tradition: Shangpa
  • Dzongchö monastery

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

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