Radreng Monastery

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : རྭ་ སྒྲེང་ དགོན་པ་
Wylie transliteration : rwa sgreng dgon pa
Pronunciation in IPA : [ raʈʂeŋ kø̃pa ]
Official transcription of the PRCh : Razhêng
THDL transcription : Radreng
Other spellings: Reting, Radeng, Rateng

Chinese name
Traditional : 熱振寺
Simplified : 热振寺
Pinyin : Rèzhèn Sì

Cycling monastery

The Radreng Monastery was originally a monastery of the Kadam School, the first Sarma tradition of Buddhism in Tibet . It is located in the valley of the Radreng Rongchu ( rwa sgreng rong chu ) north of the city of Lhasa in Lhünzhub County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . The monastery was founded by Drom Tönpa in 1057 and was the first monastery of this school, which quickly spread across Tibet. At the beginning of the 15th century, Tsongkhapa founded the Gelug School, into which the Kadam tradition was absorbed. In the middle of the 18th century the monastery became the seat of the Radreng Rinpoches .