Qualla: Reting Monastery https://qualla.com/reting-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/3/h/reting-monastery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Reting Monastery https://qualla.com/reting-monastery Reting Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/reting-monastery/ Photo credit Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before the great monasteries of Sera, Drepung, and Ganden existed, there was Reting. Founded in 1057 in the Reting Tsangpo Valley north of Lhasa, it was the first major monastery of the Sarma revival, the wave of Buddhist renewal that transformed Tibet's religious landscape. Dromton, the chief disciple of the Indian master Atisha, chose this remote valley and brought his teacher's relics with him. For nearly a thousand years, Reting has stood at the intersection of faith and political power, its abbots serving as kingmakers and regents, its walls bearing the scars of the very conflicts that power invited.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/3/h/reting-monastery-wp/wj3h-reting-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Reting Monastery: The Kadam Seed https://qualla.com/reting-monastery/ Photo credit Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0. Atisha had arrived in Tibet in 1042, bringing with him a reformed approach to Buddhist practice that emphasized monastic discipline and gradual spiritual development. When he died in 1054, his disciple Dromton carried the teaching forward by establishing Reting as the seat of the...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/3/h/reting-monastery-wp/wj3h-reting-monastery-the-kadam-seed.mp3 0:06 2 full Reting Monastery: Regents and Kingmakers https://qualla.com/reting-monastery/ Photo credit Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Reting Rinpoches occupied a peculiar position in Tibetan governance. They were among the candidates eligible to serve as Regent during the minority of a Dalai Lama, a role that placed enormous temporal power in monastic hands. A Reting Rinpoche served as Regent from 1845 to 1...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/3/h/reting-monastery-wp/wj3h-reting-monastery-regents-and-kingmakers.mp3 0:06 3 full Reting Monastery: A Contested Reincarnation https://qualla.com/reting-monastery/ Photo credit Krause, Ernst, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. The Sixth Reting Rinpoche died in 1997. Four years later, in January 2001, Chinese authorities announced the selection of a new incarnation as the Seventh Reting Rinpoche. The timing was striking: the announcement came just two days after the Karmapa, one of Tibetan Buddhism's hi...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/j/3/h/reting-monastery-wp/wj3h-reting-monastery-a-contested-reincarnation.mp3 0:06 4 full Reting Monastery: Ruins in the Valley https://qualla.com/reting-monastery/ Photo credit Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards devastated Reting. The monastery that had stood for over nine centuries was reduced to partial ruins, its libraries and shrines ransacked. Only partial restoration has followed. What remains is enough to suggest what was lost: the valley...

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