The Largest Dorje Shugden Statue in the World!
This massive 24ft statue, the largest Dorje Shugden statue in the world, is housed in Kechara Forest Retreat, an hour’s drive from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. This retreat center is the latest initiative of Kechara, a Buddhist organization founded by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche in the year 2000…
Ganden Dhamcholing Monastery in Markham, Tibet
On 16 December 2014, a new Dorje Shugden monastery opened its doors to the public in Markham, Tibet. Home to some 200 Buddhist monks who were expelled from a larger monastery in Markham…
Ganden Chang Chub Choling Monastery
Ganden Chang Chub Choling started from humble beginnings in the early 1970’s through the efforts of a great attained master and stalwart Dorje Shugden practitioner, Geshe Khenrab Gajam of Ganden Jangtse Monastery…
Rabten Choeling Switzerland
Rabten Choeling is one of the first Tibetan Buddhist monasteries to be established in the West after the exodus of Tibetans into India. Located on Mount-Pelerin, above Lake Geneva in Vevey, Switzerland…
Trijang Buddhist Institute (TBI)
Trijang Buddhist Institute located at Northfield, Vermont in the United States, is where Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche, the incarnation of one of the most important and prominent lamas of Tibetan Buddhism in the modern era…
Tugs Bayasgalant Nunnery
In Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, the Tugs Bayasgalant Nunnery faithfully remains loyal to the practice of Dorje Shugden. Established in 1990, the temple was built with great perseverance through a ten-year of struggle, and is now maintained and operated by a group of Mongolian women and lay nuns who have strong faith and devotion to Dorje Shugden…
Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre
Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, the headquarters of the NKT located in Ulverston, Cumbria in North West England on a 70-acre piece of land, is a contemporary temple that brings the ancient teachings of Buddha to the modern people of today…
Zetho Monastery in Chamdo, Tibet, China
Zetho Monastery is a thriving monastic community of Dorje Shugden practitioners located in Lhorong within the Chamdo Prefecture in Tibet. This is the traditional seat of Daknak Rinpoche’s line of incarnations and currently houses over 300 monks…
Tagtshang Lhamo Setri Monastery
Lhamo Setri Monastery is one of the earliest monasteries that enshrined Dharmapala Dorje Shugden as a Dharma Protector. A massive statue of Dorje Shugden astride a black horse stands in the main prayer hall of Lhamo Setri Monastery…
Segyu Gaden Phodrang Monastery
Segyu (or Segyued) Monastery is one of the most important historical Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the Gelug tradition. It was founded in the middle of the 15th century by Jetsun Sherab Sengge, a direct and principle disciple of Lama Tsongkapa, founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is in Segyu Monastery that the…
Ganden Sumtseling Monastery
Ganden Sumtseling Monastery, also known as ‘Little Potala Palace’ or Guihua Monastery, is located 5 km away from the city of Zhongdian in Yunnan province, China, on top of Fopinshan Mountain. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the province and is one of the most famous and important monasteries in southwest China. This…
Delgeruun Choira Monastery
Gaden Relief’s Mongolia Project helped in the reconstruction of the Delgeruun Choira* Monastery in the “Gobi” or desert province of Dundgovi in southern Mongolia. Delgeruun Choira is the traditional seat of Zava Damdin Rinpoche, a lineage of lamas whose stature was almost as great as the Bodg Khans of Mongolia…
Gaden Tharpa Choling Monastery
Gaden Tharpa Choling Monastery is a Gelugpa monastery situated at the hilltop in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India. The monastery was founded by Domo Geshe Rinpoche Ngawang Kalsang in 1912. History says that Domo Geshe Rinpoche lived in Kalimpong in 1906 when he came to India for pilgrimage and to collect medicinal plants from…
Dorje Shugden at the Mother Monastery of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche
Longrong Monastery in China Sichuan Province, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is the largest monastery in Derong County, one of the 13 major monasteries of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kham Area. It occupies about 10 hectares of land and houses 500 monks and 10,000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures. Its followers can be…
Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery, (literally “Rice Heap” monastery), located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is one of the “great three” Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. The other two are Ganden and Sera. Drepung is the largest of all Tibetan monasteries and is located on the Gambo Utse mountain, five kilometers from the western suburb of…
Dorje Shugden Chapel Trode Khangsar – Built By The Dalai Lama
If you enjoyed the video, you can download it here. Situated behind the main chapel of Jowo Buddha or the Jokhang Temple, south of the Barkhor area in Lhasa is Trode Khangsar, one of the most famous Dorje Shugden chapels in Tibet and in the world today. Built by the Great 5th Dalai Lama at…
Magnificent Dorje Shugden Chapel in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Tibet
The Panchen Lama is the highest ranking Lama after the Dalai Lama in the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. His main monastery Tashi Lhunpo has a long history of practicing Dorje Shugden which continues strongly until today. The Panchen Lama Himself is a strong practitioner of Dorje Shugden. These are some of the holy statues…
Trijang Rinpoche’s Sampheling Monastery at Chatreng
Trijang Rinpoche’s personal Monastery in Chatreng District in Kham, Tibet. Hundreds of monks and thousands of lay people are very devoted to Trijang Rinpoche and the practice of Dorje Shugden. Everything is alive and well there. Sampheling Monastery at Chatreng is the home monastery of His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche. It has…
Riwo Choeling Monastery at Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture, Tibet
Lhoka (Shannan) prefecture, makes up 1/15th of the Tibetan Autonomous region. It is also the home of yet another Monastery where the Great King Dorje Shugden resides.
Jampa Ling – A Monastery with Dorje Shugden in Chamdo, Tibet
Jampa Ling in located in Chamdo, Tibet. It was buily by Lord Tsongkhapa’s disciple in 1444. It has 12 dratsangs and there used to be 5000 monks during its prime. It is surrounded by many small chapels, and is especially famous for its annual “Lama Dance”. This monastery currently has 1300 monks. Overlooking the town…
A Chinese Buddhist Temple Spreading Dorje Shugden
This is XiaFeng Temple in YuZhu District in YouYang County of ChongQing City (重庆市酉阳县玉柱社区霞峰寺), China. It has a Dorje Shugden image at their main shrine and the Lama that is spreading the Dorje Shugden practice here is Lama Thubten Phurbu. Dorje Shugden practice has already spread to mainland China out of the Tibet area!
World’s Largest Dorje Shugden Statue in Gonsa Monastery, Kham
Denma Gonsa Rinpoche’s Monastery Denma Gonsa Rinpoche is a great senior lama and student of both Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Pabongkha Dechen Nyingpo. He transmitted the pure teachings to his district people and 600 monks of his monastery. This great Monastery houses a 12 story high main image of Je Tsongkapa and has a beautiful…
Inauguration of Jangchup Lamrim Temple, Lumbini, Nepal
His Eminence the renowned Gonsar Rinpoche has been a firm and strong practitioner of Dorje Shugden since day one. He is the root and heart student of Geshe Rabten and Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche among other teachers. He hails from Sera Je Monastery. He has wonderful centres in Switzerland, Mongolia and Austria. Gonsar Rinpoche…
Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling Buddhist Monastery
Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling Buddhist Monastery (DGTL) in Bloomington, Indiana, USA was founded in 1996 by the renowned Tibetan Buddhist teachers Ven. Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche and Ven. Gonsar Rinpoche. Their deepest wish in establishing the monastery was to preserve for the benefit of all sentient beings the Buddha’s teachings as…
Yangting Dechen Ling Monastery, Kham, Tibet
Yangting Dechen Ling Monastery in Kham, Tibet has successfully completed the construction of the new main prayer hall recently after long hard-work and dedications. The original monastery was founded by Yogi Je Lodö Namgyal who was one of the foremost disciples of Je Tsongkhapa in 1421, a couple of years after…
Trashi Chöling Hermitage
Location and Layout Trashi Chöling – literally “The Place of Auspicious Dharma” – is located about three kilometers from Sera in the mountains northwest of the monastery. It takes about one hour to walk from Sera to Trashi Chöling. The hermitage also lies approximately halfway between two other important hermitages – Pabongka, which…
Shar Gaden’s New Centre in Taiwan
Ganden Dhokhang Buddhist Center 5th Floor, No. 11, 79 Lane, Taichung Harbor Road Sec. 1, West District Taichung Taiwan (ROC) Email: [email protected] 台中市 西區 中港路一段 79巷11號, 5FL
Serpom Thösam Norling Monastery, Bylakuppe, India
Sera has produced innumerable scholars, masters, yogis, abbots, reincarnated tulkus and even regents. Currently Sera is in South India 6 hours away from Bangalore in Bylakuppe Tibetan Colony, Mysore State . Due to the ban His Holiness the Dalai Lama has enforced, Dorje Shugden practitioners may not associate with…
Phelgyeling Monastery
Phelgyeling Monastery now in Kathmandu, Nepal, was originally located in Nyanang, Tibet, not far from the Nepali border. It has a statue of Dharmapala Dorje Shugden made by the Fifth Dalai Lama himself, who converted the monastery from Kagyu to Gelugpa in 1665. It was in the original monastery in Tibet, but during the escape…
Shar Gaden Monastery, India
With 600 Tulkus, Geshes, Masters and monks keeping the lineage alive, Shar Gaden is located in Mundgod South India. It is next to Gaden Monastery and 25 minutes away from Drepung. We can access this great institute via Bombay or Bangalore. From Bombay/Bangalore you may take train or Bus which is 8-10 hours to the…
Monastery with Dorje Shugden in Nepal
Another Monastery with Dorje Shugden in Nepal! H.E. Tritul Rinpoche of Taiwan is building this new monastery that incorporates Dorje Shugden as the main protector. When completed, it will house over 1,000 monks and located in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is incredible. The work started around a year ago and is in full progress now. Another…
First Dorje Shugden Temple in Taiwan (Hualian)
Building by His Eminence Serkong Tritul Rinpoche of Ganden Jangtze Monastery. As predicted, Dorje Shugden’s practice will grow bigger and mainstream in the world. It may ‘suffer’ suppression in the Tibetan Communities, but in Democratic free societies of the world, it will grow. In the West, we have great Temples of Dorje Shugden by the…
Monastery with Dorje Shugden in Mongolia
Two miles to the west of the monastery, on the hillside on the opposite side of the Even River, is the newly constructed Dorje Shugden Temple. Formerly there were three temples here dedicated to Zanabazar, Dorje Shugden, and the Eighth Bogd Gegen. These were destroyed in the late 1930s. The Dorje Shugden Temple was rebuilt…
Tritul Rinpoche’s Temple in New Zealand
In 1989, H.E. Serkong Tritul Rinpoche of Ganden Jangtse Monastery began to travel between Tibet and other countries on a teaching tour. By 1992, he was flying between Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia and China to give teachings. In 1999, Rinpoche visited New Zealand. From there, the New Zealand…
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