Shechen Monastery
| Shechen Monastery | |
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་། |
| Wylie transliteration | Zhe-chen bsTan-gnyis-dar-rgyas-gling |
| Coordinates | 32°15′58″N 98°53′10″E / 32.26611°N 98.88611°ECoordinates: 32°15′58″N 98°53′10″E / 32.26611°N 98.88611°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Derge, between Nangdo and Dzogchen Monastery |
| Founded by | Shechen Rabjam Tenpé Gyaltsen |
| Date renovated | 1985 |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Nyingma |
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The Shechen Monastery (Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང, Wylie: zhe chen bstan gnyis dar rgyas gling ) is one of the six primary, or "mother," monasteries of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, in Tibet and Nepal. It is located in Derge between Nangdo and Dzogchen Monastery.[1] It was founded in 1695 by Shechen Rabjam Tenpé Gyaltsen, though it is sometimes claimed to have been built by Gyurme Kunzang Namgyal in 1734. It became extremely influential in the 18th and 19th centuries, with up to 160 satellite monasteries dotting the Himalayas. The monastery was completely destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, but it was rebuilt in 1985 by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.[2]
Sechen Monastery, Nepal
In 1980 a new Shechen monastery was built in Nepal.[3] near the great stupa of Boudhanath, northeast of Kathmandu, and is also known as Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery. This monastery serves as the main seat of the Shechen tradition in exile. There are more than 300 monks at this monastery. "The monastery teaches music, dance, painting and Buddhist philosophy." Its elementary school provides "a modern education for children between five and fourteen years of age."[4]
The present abbot is the seventh Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, the grandson of Dilgo Khyentse. Prominent members of the monastery include the Yangsi (Tib.ཡང་སྲིད reincarnation) of Dilgo Khyentse, Matthieu Ricard and Changling Rinpoche.
Footnotes
- ↑ Dudjom Rinpoche and Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje (1991), Vol. II, page 485.
- ↑ Lotus Speech Canada
- ↑ "Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dilgo Khyentse". Bhutan Majestic Travel. 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
- ↑ "Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu". Nepal Channel. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
References
- Dudjom Rinpoche and Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje. The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: its Fundamentals and History. Two Volumes. 1991. Translated and edited by Gyurme Dorje with Matthew Kapstein. Wisdom Publications, Boston. ISBN 0-86171-087-8
External links
- Shechen Monastery in Nepal - the main Shechen website
- Shechen Monastery in Tibet
- Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche's profile at Rigpa wiki