Qualla: Mindrolling Monastery https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/0/y/mindrolling-monastery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mindrolling Monastery https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery Mindrolling Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery/ Photo credit User:Kosigrim, Public domain. The name means "Place of Perfect Emancipation," and Mindrolling Monastery has tested that concept against three and a half centuries of violence, exile, and reconstruction. Founded in 1676 by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa on the south bank of the Tsangpo River in what is now Zhanang County, Tibet, Mindrolling is one of the six mother monasteries of the Nyingma school -- the oldest lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. For nearly 300 years, its monastic university trained scholars and yogis from across Tibet. Then the 20th century arrived, and the monastery's story became one of survival through scattering.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/0/y/mindrolling-monastery-wp/wj0y-mindrolling-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mindrolling Monastery: The Nyo Lineage https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery/ Photo credit Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0. Terdak Lingpa established Mindrolling within the Nyo lineage, and the monastery became the seat of a tradition that placed special emphasis on a breadth of learning unusual even by Tibetan monastic standards. Monks studied not only the thirteen major sutra and tantra texts of the...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/0/y/mindrolling-monastery-wp/wj0y-mindrolling-monastery-the-nyo-lineage.mp3 0:06 2 full Mindrolling Monastery: Burned and Rebuilt https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery/ Photo credit Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1718, Dzungar Mongols swept down from Dzungaria and devastated Mindrolling. The destruction was severe, but the lineage survived through Terdak Lingpa's own children. His son Dungsay Rinchen-namgyel and his daughter Jetsunma Mingyur Paldron supervised the monastery's reconstru...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/0/y/mindrolling-monastery-wp/wj0y-mindrolling-monastery-burned-and-rebuilt.mp3 0:06 3 full Mindrolling Monastery: Exile and Rebirth in Dehradun https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery/ Photo credit Angus Cepka, CC BY-SA 3.0. Among those who fled was Khochhen Rinpoche, born in 1937 in Gonjo in eastern Tibet. Recognized as a young child as the reincarnation of Namdrol Sangpo Rinpoche, he had spent over ten years studying Buddhist philosophy, calligraphy, and ritual at Mindrolling before the invasion fo...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/0/y/mindrolling-monastery-wp/wj0y-mindrolling-monastery-exile-and-rebirth-in-dehradun.mp3 0:06 4 full Mindrolling Monastery: Seeds Across Continents https://qualla.com/mindrolling-monastery/ Photo credit Photo taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0. From Dehradun, the Mindrolling lineage branched outward in ways its 17th-century founder could not have imagined. Khochhen Rinpoche built a branch monastery in Delhi, inaugurated in 2005, where 65 monks perform pujas. In Kalimpong, Darjeeling, he established another monastery alo...

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