Shechen Monastery
Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal (formerly Langduo, Sichuan, China) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shechen Monastery (Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང, Wylie: zhe chen bstan gnyis dar rgyas gling) is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It was originally located in Kham, Tibet, but was destroyed in the late 1950s during the Cultural Revolution and was rebuilt in Nepal in 1985.
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Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: Zhe-chen bsTan-gnyis-dar-rgyas-gling | |
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Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
Sect | Nyingma |
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Location | Langduo Township, Dege County, Sichuan, China, known as Kham |
Country | China |
Geographic coordinates | 32°15′58″N 98°53′10″E |
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Founder | Shechen Rabjam Tenpé Gyaltsen |
Date established | 1695 |
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