Qualla: Karma Gon Monastery https://qualla.com/karma-gon-monastery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Karma Gon Monastery https://qualla.com/karma-gon-monastery Karma Gon Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/karma-gon-monastery/ A thousand monks gathered here in the twelfth century, drawn by a 76-year-old master who had spent a lifetime searching for the right place to plant a lineage. Düsum Khyenpa, the 1st Karmapa Lama, chose the eastern bank of the Dzachu River in Chamdo, where two valleys meet and the light falls clean against the granite. Karma Gon -- the monastery he founded here around 1184 -- became the cradle of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, a tradition that would eventually spread across the Himalayas and beyond. The name itself, Karma Dansa, became an administrative unit so influential that the Chinese Ming Court extended its jurisdiction to encompass the Mekong's middle and upper reaches.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/s/v/karma-gon-monastery-wp/wjsv-karma-gon-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Karma Gon Monastery: Lineage Keepers on the River's Edge https://qualla.com/karma-gon-monastery/ The history of Karma Gon is inseparable from the Tai Situpas, the line of scholar-monks who served as its guardians across centuries. Deshin Shekpa, the 5th Karmapa Lama, gave the title of Situ to his disciple Chokyi Gyaltsen in the fifteenth century, appointing him Master of Stu...

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