Shechen Monastery

Shechen Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།
Wylie transliteration: Zhe-chen bsTan-gnyis-dar-rgyas-gling
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectNyingma
Location
LocationLangduo Township, Dege County, Sichuan, China, known as Kham
CountryChina
Interactive map of Shechen Monastery
Coordinates32°15′58″N 98°53′10″E / 32.26611°N 98.88611°E / 32.26611; 98.88611
Architecture
FounderShechen Rabjam Tenpé Gyaltsen
Established1695

Shechen Monastery (Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་བསྟན་གཉིས་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང, Wylie: zhe chen bstan gnyis dar rgyas gling) is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It was originally located in Kham, Tibet, but was destroyed in the late 1950s during the Cultural Revolution and was rebuilt in Nepal in 1985.

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