Dzongsar Monastery | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
Sect | Sakya and Rimé |
Leadership | Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche |
Location | |
Location | Mehnshek, Dêgê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China |
Country | China |
Geographic coordinates | 31°38′35″N 98°57′46″E / 31.64306°N 98.96278°E |
Dzongsar Monastery (Tibetan: རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།, Wylie: rdzong gsar dgon) is a Buddhist monastery in Dêgê County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China, southeast of the town of Derge and east of Palpung Monastery. Historically it lay in the Kham region of Tibet. It was founded in 746, destroyed in 1958, and rebuilt in 1983.
The monastery belongs to the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism and was the main seat of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. However it is noted for its eclecticism of the Rimé movement and its openness to most of the teaching sects of Tibetan Buddhism.