Ganden Monastery

Ganden Monastery (also Gaden or Gandain) or Ganden Namgyeling is one of the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet, located at the top of Wangbur Mountain, Tagtse County, 36 kilometers ENE from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, at an altitude of 4,750m. (The other two 'great monasteries' are Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery.) Its full name is dGa' ldan rNam rgyal gling or dGan-ldan rNam-par Gyal-wahi glin ("Continent of completely vi... more

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