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[[Ngor Ewam Chöden Monastery]] ({{BigTibetan|[[ངོར་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[ngor e waM chos ldan]]'') — an important [[Sakya]] [[monastery]], and seat of the [[Ngor]] subschool, established by [[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]] around 1430. Before being completely demolished during the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Chamdo|Chinese invasion]], it was a very active [[monastery]], counting about 1,000 [[monks]] in the 1950s. It has only been partly reconstructed. | [[Ngor Ewam Chöden Monastery]] ({{BigTibetan|[[ངོར་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[ngor e waM chos ldan]]'') — an important [[Sakya]] [[monastery]], and seat of the [[Ngor]] subschool, established by [[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]] around 1430. Before being completely demolished during the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Chamdo|Chinese invasion]], it was a very active [[monastery]], counting about 1,000 [[monks]] in the 1950s. It has only been partly reconstructed. | ||
Latest revision as of 01:48, 5 April 2016
[[File:Ngorchen.png|frame|Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo)] Ngor Ewam Chöden Monastery (ངོར་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན་, Wyl. ngor e waM chos ldan) — an important Sakya monastery, and seat of the Ngor subschool, established by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo around 1430. Before being completely demolished during the Chinese invasion, it was a very active monastery, counting about 1,000 monks in the 1950s. It has only been partly reconstructed.
Ngor Monastery is divided into four monastic houses (Tib. བླ་བྲང་, labrang; Wyl. bla brang):
- Luding (ཀླུ་སྡིངས་, klu sdings),
- Khangsar (ཁང་གསར་, khang gsar),
- Thartse (ཐར་རྩེ་, thar rtse) and
- Phende (ཕན་བདེ, phan bde)
Ngor Monastery in Exile
- Ngor Monastery was reestablished in Manduwala, India
Further Reading
- Ronald Davidson, 'The Ngor-pa Tradition' in Wind Horse, vol. 1, 1981, pp.79-98
- David Jackson, 'Sources on the Chronology and Succession of the Abbots of Ngor E-waṃ-chos-ldan', Berliner Indologische Studien. Band 4/5: 49-93, 1989.
- David P. Jackson, 'The 'Bhutan Abbot' of Ngor: Stubborn Idealist with a Grudge against Shugs-ldan' in Lungta 14, 2001
