84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན།

  • e waM chos ldan
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  • Ewaṃ Chöden
  • ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན།
  • e waM chos ldan
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Ngor Ewaṃ Chöden is an important monastery near Shigatse in Tsang founded by Ngorchen Künga Sangpo in 1429, which became the center of the widely spread Ngor branch of the Sakya tradition. Though following the Sakya tradition, Ngor Ewaṃ Chöden retained administrative independence from Sakya monastery.