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Choding Monastery (Chos-sdings)

Dowman, p. 240; Dorje, p. 226. ........................................................

Cholung (Chos lung) Tsongkapa’s Hermitage.

Dowman pp. 249-250 .....................................................


Sangak Cholung Monastery, Sangak Choeling

Dorje pp. 240, 944

Luntse county. Chinese name Sananqulin Si / Sangngagqoling

Mapping the Tibetan World 106. ....................................................

Fifth Gyalwang Drukpa, Gyalwang Pagsam Wangpo (1593-1641)

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Sangak Choling
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectDrukpa
Location
LocationLhuntse County, Tibet
CountryChina
Architecture
FounderPema Karpo
Date established1515
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Druk Sangag Choeling, Sangak Choling or Sangak Choeling Gonpa, was the head monastery of the Drukchen Kagyu order, and housed 400 monks before the Chinese came.[1] It was destroyed in the 1960s but has under reconstruction since 1986, and stands on a hill above the town of Sangak Choling.[2]

  1. ^ Mapping the Tibetan World. (2004), p. 106.
  2. ^ Dorje (2009), p. 240.