Dergé
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Dergé (Tib. སྡེ་དགེ་, Wyl. sde dge). The name of a region and town in Eastern Tibet.
The region was formerly one of five independent kingdoms in Kham, Tibet, and it was known as the Kingdom of Dergé (13th century–1956). It is now administered as a county in Sichuan, China.
Around the 1630s, the Dergé Kingdom became a major center of Tibetan culture and industry.
In the 1700s, the rulers of the Dergé Kingdom sponsored the printing of the Tibetan Kangyur and Tengyur. These editions are known as:
Queen Tsewang Lhamo (d. 1812) of Dergé Kingdom commissioned the printing the Nyingma Gyubum (a collection of tantras of the Nyingma school).
The Dergé Parkhang ("Dergé Printing House") is still in use today.
External links
Kingdom of Derge, Wikipedia
Dergé, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
