Mindroling

The Monastery of Mindroling , in Tibetan “Place of the Perfect Emancipation”, is one of the six major monasteries of the school Nyingmapa of the Bouddhisme Tibetan. It was established in 1676 by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa (Nyo line) in the area of Lhassa on southern bank of the river Yarlung Zangbo. In 1965, monks having fled invaded Tibet restored it close to the town of Dehradun in India.

History of the monastery of Mindroling to Tibet

Damaged in 1718 by Dzungar Mongolian of the Eastern Turkestan, it was rebuilt under the reign of the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso (1708-1757), under the supervision of Dungsay Rinchen-namgyel and Jetsunma Mingyur Paldron, wire and girl of Terdak Lingpa.

For nearly three hundred years this monastic university trained Nyingma well-read men and yogis coming from the whole of Tibet. In Mindroling, the accent was placed on the study of the writings Buddhist S, astronomy and the lunar calendar Tibetan, penmanship, rhetoric and the Médecine traditional Tibetan. The thirteen Sutra S and major Tantra S Nyingma and the various practices drifting terma, initially those of the line of Terdak Lingpa, constituted the heart of teaching. The monastery had during a time more than one hundred appendices and the holder of the throne of Mindroling was one of the Tulku S révérés of Tibet.

At the time of the Chinese military invasion of 1959, there were roughly three hundred monks with Mindroling. Thereafter, the monastery underwent damage, less severe nevertheless than those of the other monasteries such as Ganden. At the beginning of XXIe century, the monastery is in the course of rebuilding.

Réétablissement de Mindroling in India

In 1965, Khochhen Rinpoché and an small group of monks undertook to restore the monastery of Mindroling close to the mountainous city of Dehradun in the Uttarakhand in India. It shelters now the University Nyingma de Ngagyur, one of largest the Buddhist institutes in India. Khandro Rinpoché, one of the rare women recognized like reincarnation, is also actively implied in this monastery.

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