In order to give equal opportunity to women in the study and practice of Dharma,
Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche established the nunnery in 1993, which is situated at a distance of one kilometer from
Namdroling Monastery
The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery (or Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling)(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) ( Wylie: ''theg ...
. There are 1397 nuns who have enrolled in this nunnery so far, of which more than 681 are currently resident. The older nuns engage themselves in the recitation and sadhanas of the Three Roots, as well as the Tsalung and Dzogchen practices. The younger nuns enter the Jr. High School at the nunnery and study the basic Tibetan grammars and basic Buddhist teachings, after which they enter the nuns' Institute.
[Ngagyur Tsogyal Shedrub Dargye Ling Nunnery, , Published by Tsogyal Editorial Committee, 2013]
Branches
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Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Institute
The Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Institute () was founded by Penor Rinpoche in 1995. Buddhist nuns there study a nine-year course on sutra and tantra along with poetry, grammar, composition and so on, a syllabus virtually identical to that of Ngagyur ...
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Drubnyi Gatshal Ling Retreat Center
* Junior High School
* Tsogyal Editorial Committee
References
External links
Namdroling Website
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