Talk:Samding Monastery

Different information?

 * To Lhasa in Disguise


 * Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.192 (talk) 10:56, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I have included information from the above book in the article - thank you so much for pointing it out to me. Best wishes for the New Year. John Hill (talk) 00:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Best wishes, too, and welcome. Austerlitz -- 88.75.73.44 (talk) 20:12, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

some more information
 * "It's possible to visit the main assembly hall, to the right of the courtyard, which is dominated by a statue of Sakyamuni. There is also a footprint of the ninth Dorje Phagmo here, plus an eerie protector chapel and several chapels upstairs." (2007)
 * "Located at the peninsula in the south of the Yamzho Yumco Lake (Yamdrok), Samding is a monastery of Shangpa Kagyu (White Sect)."
 * "Some records show that the monastery was built by a student of Khyungpo Nyalior (978-1127), founder of the Shangpa Kagyu Sect, a branch of the Kagyupa School. Other records show that the monastery was built in 1441 by the first Samding Dorje Phagmo, student of Bodong Chokle Namgyel (1375-1451, founder of the Bodong Sect). Therefore, the Samding Monastery is considered to belong to the Bodong Sect."
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 * "Samding was founded in the 13th century by Khetsün Zhönnu Drub."
 * "statue of Sakyamuni (Sakya Thukpa)"
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 * Austerlitz -- 88.75.220.96 (talk) 19:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Austerlitz -- 88.72.31.220 (talk) 11:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC) (added some quotations from the links)


 * There is now a well researched book available:
 * Diemberger, Hildegard (2007). When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14320-2.


 * According to its entry in the TBRC database Samding Monastery belongs to the Bodong Tradition. Association with the Shangpa Kagyu can be explained because the first Samding Dorje Phagmo was a student of Thangtong Gyalpo as well as of Bodong Panchen Chogle Namgyal. Anyway there are close connections between the Bodongpa and Shangpa traditions.


 * There are also short biographies of the first two Samding Dorje Phagmo incarnations, Chokyi Dronma and Kunga Zangmo available on-line at the Treasury of Lives.


 * Also see:
 * Sudbury, Jill (2007). An Enigmatic Renaissance: The Revival of the Bodongpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. (M.Phil.). Oxford University.


 * These are all good academic sources which can be used to improve this article.


 * Chris Fynn (talk) 06:44, 8 November 2014 (UTC)