Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: gnas-chung lcog, ZYPY: Naiqung Gönba) or Nechung Chok (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག, ZYPY: Naiqung Jog "the small dwelling", Chinese: 乃琼寺), is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. It is also referred to as Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar, the "Demon Fortress of the Oracle King."[1]
It is about 10 minutes walk down from Drepung Monastery, and was the residence of the three-headed, six-armed Pehar Gyalpo, the chief protector of the Gelugs (Yellow Hat sect) and the seat of the State Oracle or Nechung Oracle.[2] It is a medium-sized temple which used to house about a hundred monks.[3]
The Nechung Oracle is the personal oracle of the Dalai Lama since the second Dalai Lama. The medium currently resides in Nechung Monastery established...
according to centuries-old custom, consulted the Nechung Oracle during the new year festivities of Losar. Nechung and Gadhong are the primary oracles currently...
Tibet Journal, Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer 1979, p. 52. "Nechung Temple – Nechung Monastery". Nechung.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-24. Retrieved...
Hawn received from the Venerable Thupten Ngodrup. He is the Nechung Oracle of the Nechung Dorje Drayang Ling Monastery in Dharamsala, India. "The lotus...
as an oracle. The Great Dharma King (rgyal chen) Nechung Dorje Drakden (rdo rje grags ldan) or Nechung Chokyong (chos skyong) is considered to be the chief...
band of five gyalpo spirits and would later become the protector deity of Nechung Monastery in the 17th century under the auspices of the Fifth Dalai Lama...
such as the Nechung Kuten or Sungma Balung, are reported to display superhuman strength during possession. Eyewitnesses described the Nechung Oracle wearing...
minutes above Pahala on the Big Island of Hawaii. Its Tibetan name is Nechung Dorje Drayang Ling (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་གཡང་གླིང, Wylie: gnas-chung...
lives in exile in northern India, still consults an oracle known as the Nechung Oracle, which is considered the official state oracle of the government...
dreams and omens, and a formal recognition by the Dalai Lama. Often, the Nechung Oracle was also consulted. By 1994, five years after the death of the 10th...
Gangchen Kyishong (Tibetan government-in-exile), Mani Lakhang Stupa, Nechung Monastery and Norbulingka Institute. The Tibet Museum, established in 1998...
constructed Shugden as replacing the traditional Gelug protectors Pehar, Nechung, Palden Lhamo, Mahakala, Vaisravana and Kalarupa, who was appointed by...
consulting the Nechung Oracle for Losar: For hundreds of years now, it has been traditional for the Dalai Lama, and the Government, to consult Nechung during...
lives in exile in northern India, still consults an oracle known as the Nechung Oracle, which is considered the official state oracle of the government...
as a Tibetan subgroup or a closely related people.[citation needed] The Nechung, state oracle of Tibet, and Lamo Tsangpa, another oracle, had both predicted...
landed in the eye of controversy over comment on ill-effects of relying on Nechung Oracle, which the monk claimed was an outdated, feudalistic practice in...
Dalai Lama) when a monk at Litang monastery, spontaneously channeling the Nechung Oracle, identified Kelzang Gyatso as the reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso...
Regent Demo Tulku and the Seventh Panchen Lama followed indications from Nechung, the 'state oracle' which led them to appoint him at the age of two. He...
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