Ralung Monastery
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Tibetan script :
ར་ ལུང་ དགོན །
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Wylie transliteration : ra lung dgon; bshad sgrub chos' khor gling
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Other spellings: Ralung Gön, Ralung Gompa, Shedrub Chökhor Ling, Shedrub Chokhor Ling, Shedrub Choekhor Ling,
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Simplified :
热 龙 寺, 热 垄 寺, 主 熱 寺, 靴 竹 措 格林 寺
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The Ralung Monastery ( tib . Ra lung dgon ) or Shedrub Chökhor Ling ( bshad sgrub chos' khor gling ) is a monastery of the Drugpa Kagyü School ( 'brug pa bka' brgyud ), one of the so-called "eight smaller schools" of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ). The monastery was founded in 1193 by Tsangpa Gyarepa (1161–1211), the first Gyelwang Drugpa , in the western Tibetan region of Tsang . It is located in the Ralung ( ra lung ) municipality of Gyangzê (Gyantse) County in the Xigazê (Shigatse) administrative district in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .
The monastery complex was completely destroyed in 1966 during the Chinese Cultural Revolution . It has been partially rebuilt since 1984.
See also
- Gyelwang Drugpa ( rgyal dbang 'brug pa )
- Pema Karpo
- Drug monastery
literature
Michael Henss: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet , Volume I and II, Prestel / Random House 2014; ISBN 978-3-7913-5158-2
Web links
- Ralung Monastery - English
References and footnotes
- ↑ Chinese Relong si 热 龙 寺 or 热 隆 寺
- ↑ In addition to the Nyingma tradition, this represents the largest Buddhist school in neighboring Bhutan .
- ↑ T. gtsang pa rgya ras pa or Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje ( gtsang pa rgya ras ye shes rdo rje ); Chinese Zhangba Jialei Yixi Duojie ; see. [1]
- ↑ Chinese Relong 热 龙乡 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Henss, The Cultural Monuments of Tibet, Vol. II , Prestel / Random House, 2014 http://media.ebook.de/shop/coverscans/218/21817658_LPROB.pdf
Coordinates: 28 ° 50 ′ 5 ″ N , 90 ° 5 ′ 59 ″ E