27 Mar 2001

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Website and Cham Tour
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Mysore, India and Dolma Tulotsang, Toronto, Canada
Self-description: "Tashi Lhunpo was founded by H.H. the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in 1447. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet which was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas and has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy. After the Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery was re-established at Bylakuppe in South India in 1972 [...]. The monastery has monks coming from Tibet and Himalayan regions like Spithi, Khunu, Ladakh, Ghashar and Sangkhar. At present there are over 250 monks including many Tulkus (reincarnate lamas) [...] Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is a nonprofit charitable organization imparting various aspects of the Buddhist religion while also maintaining a school of modern education."
Site contents: Dalai Lama; Tashi Lhunpo Monastery; Cham Tour [about forthcoming major religious event in N. America, 2001-2002]; Support; Panchen Lama; Free Tibet; Contact.
URL http://tashilhunpo.org/
Link reported by: Glenn Freeman (glennf@grfn.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful