All Shangpa sites for Site Type Monastery

Gönpo Monastery

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mgon po dgon

མགོན་པོ་དགོན།

Originally a Shangpa site, converted to a Karma Kagyü in 1673. Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Nangchen

    • 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

    • Nenying Monastery

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    gnas rnying dgon

    གནས་རྙིང་དགོན།

    Early Shangpa site, and seat of the Nenying Kagyu sudvision of the Shangpa, founded by Latodpa Konchok Khar.

  • Site Type: Monastery
  • Site Location: Khangmar

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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