All Shangpa sites for Current Tradition Shangpa

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

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  • Site Location: Degé

    • 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

    • Jakchung Monastery

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    ‘jag pa dgon (‘jag chung dpal dgon)

    འཇག་པ་དགོན། འཇག་ཆུང་དཔལ་དགོན།

    Early Shangpa site of Jakchen Gyaltsen Bum, Jakchen Jampa Pel, and Khedrup Shangton. The primary seat of the Jakpa transmissions the Shangpa.

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

    • 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

    • Cheka Monastery

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    ‘chad kha dgon (jog mda’ – ‘phan yul ‘chad kha dgon, maybe also ‘jog po mda’i chad kar dgon pa)

    འཆད་ཁ་དགོན།

    Early Shangpa Kagyu site visited by Khyungpo Naljor. Founded by Kadam master Chekhawa Yeshé Dorjé (‘chad kha ba ye shes rdo rje), known to have composed one treatise on Lojong entitled The Seven Point Mind Training (blo sbyong don bdun ma). Documented by Jonang Foundation in 2014.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Lhündrup

    • Samding Monastery

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    bsam sdings dgon (pa snam bsam sdings)

    བསམ་སྡིངས་དགོན།

    Early Shangpa site founded around the time of Khetsun Zhonu Drup, located in Panam (pa snam). This is a different place from Samding Monastery in Nakartse (sna dkar rtse).

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Panam

    • 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

    • 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