Dorje Drak

Dorje Drak
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་དགོན་པ།
Wylie transliteration: rdo rje brag dgon pa
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
Location
LocationLhoka (Shannan) Prefecture, known as U-Tsang
CountryChina
Dorje Drak is located in China
Dorje Drak
Location within China
Geographic coordinates29°21′11″N 91°07′55″E / 29.353°N 91.132°E / 29.353; 91.132
Architecture
FounderNgari Panchen Pema Wangyal (1487-1582)
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Dorjidak Gompa (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: rdo rje brag dgon pa "Indestructible Rock Vihara") or Tupten Dorjidak Dorjé Drak Éwam Chokgar (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ལྕོག་སྒར་, Wylie: thub bstan rdo rje brag rdo rje brag e waM lcog sgar) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and one of the Nyingma school's "Six Mother Monasteries" in Tibet. It is located in the Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region, older southeastern Ü-Tsang.[1]

Dorje Drak is also the name of the monastery built to replace it in Shimla, India after the original was destroyed during the Battle of Chamdo. It is now the seat of the throne-holder of the monastery and the tradition.[2] Along with Mindrolling Monastery it is one of the two most important Nyingma monasteries in the region of Ü.[3]

  1. ^ Berzin (1991, expanded 2003)
  2. ^ Dorje Drak Monastery
  3. ^ Mayhew and Kohn (2005), p. 147.