Tharlam Monastery

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

External links

• Treasury of Lives page
• Tharlam Monastery, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Tharlam Monastery in Nepal