Tharlam Monastery

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Tharlam Monastery (Tib. ཐར་ལམ་, Wyl. thar lam) or Śrī Tharlam Ganden Sabzang Namgyal Ling - a Sakya monastery in Kham founded by Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe in 1436. It was also the monastery of Gatön Ngawang Lekpa and Dezhung Rinpoche. In 1981, Dezhung Rinpoche founded a second Tharlam Monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal.

Further Reading

  • David Jackson, Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhung Rinpoche, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003

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