Kathok Monastery (Tibetan: ཀཿཐོག་དགོན།, THL Kathok Gön), also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" in Tibet of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was built after Samye Monastery, in the Kingdom of Derge (Baiyu County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan, China), in the region traditionally known in Tibet as Kham or Do Kham.
KathokMonastery (Tibetan: ཀཿཐོག་དགོན།, THL Kathok Gön), also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother...
practitioners, his father was Kathok Tulku Norbu Tenzing, a famous tulku in the Pemakö region, who had trained at Katok Monastery. His mother was Namgyal Drolma...
'gyur med mchog grub) was an important Nyingma scholar affiliated with KathokMonastery. Getse Mahapandita was instrumental in arranging the block printing...
other masters at KathokMonastery as well, in addition to the great Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö from Dzongsar Monastery, which like Kathok lies in the Derge...
under the guidance of his root teacher, Khenpo Munsel (1916–1994) of KathokMonastery. Khenpo Munsel was well known as one of the chief disciples, along...
" However, other Nyingmas, particularly those associated with the KathokMonastery, hold shentong views closer to those of the Jonang, with Getsé Mahāpaṇḍita...
Dubdi Monastery, occasionally called Yuksom Monastery, is a Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism near Yuksom, in the Geyzing subdivision...
Shechen Monastery (1695), the Six Mother Monasteries were Dorje Drak and Mindrolling in the upper region, Shechen and Dzogchen in the center, and Kathok and...
Dudjom Rinpoche's centers in Dordogne. After Rinpoche's passing, the fifth Kathok Drimed Zhingchong, Jigme Trinley Gonpo and the second Khenpo Ngakchung Lekshey...
is said to contain water and soil from all parts of Sikkim. . The small Kathok Lake's waters were used for the consecration ceremony held to crown the...
sudden, and they became known as ‘bodhicharyavatara flowers.’ He went to Kathok Dorje Den, where he offered prostrations and 'circumambulated' (Wylie: skor...
in the western Himalayas. He passed away at the age of 82 at Shashur Monastery in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachel Pradesh on February 23, 1977...
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