Ganden

The monastery of Ganden is one of the " three grandes" monastic university Gelugpa of the Tibet, located at the top of the mountain of Wangbur, in the county of Tagtse, with 36 kilometers in the North-East of the Potala to Lhassa, at an altitude of 4300 Mr. the two other large monasteries Gelugpa is Séra and Drepung.

History of the monastery of Ganden to Tibet

Being most distant from Lhassa of the three monastic university, Ganden traditionally had a smaller population with approximately 6000 monks at the beginning of the 20th century. Since the Chinese invasion of the Tibet, Ganden does not count more than 300 monks and it became difficult to maintain there teaching traditional, in particular because of rehabilitation campaigns asking the monk to denounce the Dalaï Lama. Thus, according to the TCHRD, Jigme Gyatso, monk of the monastery of Ganden, was condemned the November 23rd 1996 to 15 years of imprisonment for its support for the Dalaï Lama. Ganden was the first monastery of the order Gelugpa, founded by Tsongkhapa itself in 1409, and traditionally considered the seat of the administrative and political power Gelugpa. The Ganden Tripa or “holder of the throne of Ganden” is the chief of the Gelugpa school. The monastery of Ganden was composed of two universities, Jangtse and Shartse, meaning the peak of north and the peak of the east respectively. The three principal sites of the monastery of Ganden are Serdung, which contains the tomb of Tsongkhapa, the hall of Parliament of Tsokchen and Ngam Cho Khang, the vault where Tsongkhapa traditionally taught. The monastery contains objects which belonged to Tsongkhapa. The monastery of Ganden was completely destroyed after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, and since the Eighties it rebuilt.

Réétablissment de Ganden in India

The monastery of Ganden was restored with the Karnataka, in India by the Tibetans in exile. The monastery of Ganden is located in the refugee camp Tibetans of Mundgod. This refugee camp Tibetans is largest of the kind in India and was established in 1966, on the ground given by the Indian government. In the camp Tibetan close Mundgod, the monasteries of Ganden and Drepung are. In 1999, there were on the whole approximately 13.000 residents. The camp Tibetan is composed of 9 camps with two monasteries and a convent. They established a bank of credit for farms, an agricultural institute and a center of craft industry. Modern technologies in particular of communication were introduced. The programme of studies of the monastery of Ganden remains similar to the lesson of the monastery of Ganden of before 1959. The Jangtse universities and Shartse of the monastery of Ganden were also restored in India. They are called the university of Ganden Jangtse and the monastery of Ganden and are localized in the Karnataka.

See too

Internal bonds

List of Buddhist temples of Tibet
List of Buddhist temples of India

External bonds

Short history of the monastery of Ganden by Alexandre Berzin
Monastery of Ganden to monastic Tibet
University of Ganden
Ganden Jangtse

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