Monasterios budistas tibetanos históricos en India

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El origen de los monasterios budistas en India

El Imperio Maurya alcanzó su apogeo durante el reinado del emperador Ashoka, quien se convirtió al budismo tras la Batalla de Kalinga.

En 2018, excavaciones en Lalitgiri, en Odisha, realizadas por el Servicio Arqueológico de India, revelaron cuatro monasterios junto con sellos e inscripciones antiguas que evidencian la continuidad cultural desde el período post-maurya hasta el siglo XIII d.C.

El Imperio Kushan, bajo el emperador Kaniṣka, gobernó la región fuertemente budista de Gandhara, así como otras partes del norte de India, Afganistán y Pakistán.

Los gobernantes kushan fueron partidarios de las instituciones budistas y construyeron numerosos estupas y monasterios.

Bajo el dominio de los reyes Pāla y Sena, florecieron grandes mahavihars en lo que hoy es Bihar y Bengala.

En Bihar y Bengala, muchos santuarios y templos budistas han permanecido intactos con el Buda o el Bodhisattva en su interior, siendo apropiados y venerados como deidades brahmánicas.

Monasterios y templos budistas tibetanos

Los budistas tibetanos también han contribuido a la construcción de templos e instituciones en los sitios y ruinas budistas de India.

Esta es una lista de algunos monasterios y templos budistas tibetanos bien conocidos en India.

Monasterio Tashi Lhunpo

El Monasterio Tashi Lhunpo, fundado en 1447 por el 1er Dalai Lama, es un monasterio histórico y culturalmente importante en Shigatse, la segunda ciudad más grande del Tíbet.

Monasterio Sera

El Monasterio Sera es uno de los «tres grandes» monasterios universitarios Gelug de Tíbet, ubicado a 1.25 millas (2.01 km) al norte de Lhasa y a aproximadamente 5 km (3.1 mi) al norte del Jokhang. Los otros dos son el Monasterio Ganden y el Monasterio Drepung. El origen de su nombre se atribuye a un hecho que durante la construcción, la colina detrás del monasterio estaba cubierta de rosas silvestres en flor.

Monasterio Rumtek

El Monasterio Rumtek, también llamado el Centro Dharmachakra, es un gompa ubicado en el estado indio de Sikkim cerca de la capital Gangtok. Es un punto focal para las tensiones sectarias dentro de la escuela Karma Kagyu del budismo tibetano que caracterizan la controversia del Karmapa.

Monasterio Namgyal

El Monasterio Namgyal se encuentra actualmente en Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala, India. Es el monasterio personal del 14º Dalai Lama. Otro nombre para este complejo de templos es el Colegio Tántrico Namgyal.

Tibetan Nuns Project

The Tibetan Nuns Project is a non-profit organisation founded in 1987 dedicated to educating and supporting female Buddhist monastics in India from all Tibetan Buddhist lineages. It supports nuns interested in study and higher ordination. The mission of the Tibetan Nuns Project is to educate and empower nuns of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as teachers and leaders; and to establish, strengthen, and support educational institutions to preserve the Tibetan religion and culture. The organisation supports seven nunneries and over 700 nuns in India.

Monasterio Ganden

El Monasterio Ganden o Ganden Namgyeling es uno de los «tres grandes» monasterios universitarios Gelug del Tíbet, China. Se encuentra en el condado de Dagzê, Lhasa. Los otros dos son el Monasterio Sera y el Monasterio Drepung. El Monasterio Ganden fue fundado en 1409 por Je Tsongkhapa Lozang-dragpa, fundador de la orden Gelug. El monasterio fue destruido después de 1959, pero desde entonces ha sido parcialmente reconstruido. Otro monasterio con el mismo nombre y tradición fue establecido en el sur de India en 1966 por exiliados tibetanos.

Tabo Monastery

Tabo Monastery is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape by the Tibetan Buddhist lotsawa (translator) Rinchen Zangpo, on behalf of the king of western Himalayan Kingdom of Guge, Yeshe-Ö. Tabo is noted for being the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in both India and the Himalayas. A large number of frescoes displayed on its walls depict tales from the Buddhist pantheon. There are many priceless collections of thankas, manuscripts, well-preserved statues, frescos and extensive murals which cover almost every wall. The monastery is in need of refurbishing as the wooden structures are aging and the thanka scroll paintings are fading. After the earthquake of 1975, the monastery was rebuilt, and in 1983 a new Du-kang or Assembly Hall was constructed. It is here that the 14th Dalai Lama held the Kalachakra ceremonies in 1983 and 1996. The monastery is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as a national historic treasure of India.

Rato Dratsang

Rato Dratsang, also known as Rato Monastery, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery or monastic university of the Gelug or «Yellow Hat» tradition. Rato was, for many centuries, one of the major monastic colleges in Tibet.

Monasterio Mindrolling

El Monasterio Mindrolling es uno de los seis monasterios principales de la escuela Nyingma en el Tíbet. Fue fundado por Rigzin Terdak Lingpa en 1676. La línea de Tendrak Lingpa se conoce como la línea Nyo. El nombre en tibetano significa «Lugar de Emancipación Perfecta». Se encuentra en el condado de Zhanang, en la prefectura de Shannan, Región Autónoma del Tíbet, China, aproximadamente a 43 kilómetros al este del aeropuerto de Lhasa, en el lado sur del río Tsangpo.

Salugara Monastery

Salugara Monastery is among the most frequented revered places, located in the outskirts of Siliguri. Located 6 km from the city, the Buddhist shrine is visited by tourists for meditation. The ideal tranquil location for meditation was established by Tibetan monks and followers of religious leader the Dalai Lama.

Basgo Monastery

Basgo Monastery, also known as Basgo or Bazgo Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery located in Basgo or Bazgo in Leh District, Ladakh, northern India approximately 40 km from Leh.

Dzongkhul Monastery

Dzongkhul Monastery or Zongkhul Gompa is located in the Stod Valley of Zanskar in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. Like the Sani Monastery, it belongs to the Drukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism

Taktse Ogyen Choekhorling Monastery

Taktse Ogyen Choekhorling Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Shashur Monastery

Shashur or Sashur Monastery is a Buddhist monastery of the Drugpa sect in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. It is located 137 kilometres from Manali. Sha-shur means «blue pines» in the local dialect, as patches of blue pine can be seen around the monastery.

Simik Monastery

Simik Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Tholung Monastery

Tholung Monastery is a gompa located in remote upper Dzongu, in the buffer zone of Khangchendzonga National Park. It is considered one of the most sacred monasteries in Sikkim. Tholung literally means Areasima place or Areasima country.

Urgelling Monastery

Urgelling Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.

Wanla Monastery

Wanla Gompa is a historic Buddhist monastery on the ridge that crowns Wanla village in Ladakh of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Its small but impressively preserved three-storeyed Avalokitesvara temple is one of the earliest known Drigung Kagyu prayer chambers to have survived in Ladakh. Wanla is a sub-monastery of Lamayuru which provides a caretaker monk responsible for daily rituals and for granting access to the temple. The main image features Avalokitesvara in 11-headed («Chuchigzhel») form.

Yangyang Monastery

Yangyang Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Shurishing Yungdrung Dungdrakling Monastery

Shurishing Yungdrung Dungdrakling Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Shey Monastery

The Shey Monastery or Gompa and the Shey Palace complex are structures located on a hillock in Shey, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the south of Leh in Ladakh, northern India on the Leh-Manali road. Shey was the summer capital of Ladakh in the past.

Sinon Monastery

Sinon Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Alchi Monastery

Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex (chos-‘khor) of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, of the Indian state under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of Jammu and Kashmir. The complex comprises four separate settlements in the Alchi village in the lower Ladakh region with monuments dated to different periods. Of these four hamlets, Alchi monastery is said to be the oldest and most famous. It is administered by the Likir Monastery.

Sani Monastery

Sani Monastery, Sa-ni-[tshog], is located next to the village of Sani where the Stod Valley broadens into the central plain of Zanskar in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. It is about 6 km to the northwest of the regional centre of Padum, a gentle two-hour walk. Like Dzongkhul Monastery, it belongs to the Drukpa Kargyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, and is the only one of this order in Zanskar which has nuns. It is thought to be the oldest religious site in the whole region of Ladakh and Zanskar.

Phyang Monastery

Phyang Monastery, Phyang Gompa is a Buddhist monastery located in Fiang village, just 15 or 16 kilometres west of Leh in Ladakh, northern India. It was established in 1515.

Bardan Monastery

Bardan Monastery or Bardan Gompa is a 17th-century Buddhist monastery, approximately 12 kilometres south of Padum, in Zanskar, Ladakh, northern India at the side of the Lungnak river. It belongs to the Dugpa-Kargyud monastic order and was one of the first monasteries of this sect to be established in Zanskar. The monastery also ran several smaller hermitages in the area.

Mag-Dhog Yolmowa Monastery

Mag-Dhog Yolmowa Monastery is a gompa in the town of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. The monastery is also known as «Aloobari» monastery after the locality it is located in. The monastery was built under the supervision of Sri Sangay Lama, a highly revered religious head of the Yolmo people – a small ethnic group hailing from north-east of Nepal and who later settled in Darjeeling. The construction of the monastery started in 1914, the year World War I started. The name Mag-Dhog means warding off the war and the monastery was dedicated for world peace.

Kursha Monastery

Karsha Monastery or Karsha Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in the Padum Valley of the Zanskar region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The Doda River flows past the monastery from its source at the Drang Drung glacier of the Pensi La. It was founded by the translator, Phagspa Shesrab. The monastery, also known by the name «Karsha Chamspaling’, was founded by Phagspa Shesrab, under the Gelugpa Order or the Yellow Hat Order.

Kagyu Thekchen Ling Monastery

Kagyu Thekchen Ling Monastery, also known as Ratnarishi Bihar Buddhist Gumpa or simply Lava Monastery, is a Buddhist monastery situated in Lava, West Bengal, India.

Hundur Monastery

Hundur Monastery, also known as Hundur Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery in the Hundar village, in Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India. It is located near Diskit Monastery and Lachung Temple, situated just below the main road, near the bridge.

Hee Gyathang Monastery

Hee Gyathang Monastery is a Buddhist monastery situated in Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim in northeastern India. It was built by hemit Abi Putso Rangdrol in 1914.

Gnathang Monastery

Gnathang Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim in northeastern India. The monastery is about 100 years old.

Dhankar Gompa

Dhankar Gompa is a village and also a Gompa, a Buddhist temple in the district of Lahaul and Spiti in India. It is situated at an elevation of 3,894 metres in the Spiti Valley above Dhankar Village, between the towns of Kaza and Tabo. The complex is built on a 1000-foot (300-metre) high spur overlooking the confluence of the Spiti and Pin Rivers – one of the world’s most spectacular settings for a gompa. Dhang or dang means cliff, and kar or khar means fort. Hence Dhangkar means fort on a cliff.

Bomdila Monastery

Bomdila Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.

Bermiok Monastery

Bermoik Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Sikkim, northeastern India.

Zangla Monastery

Current day Zangla Village has no Monastery only a Nunnery. Zangla Palace is sometimes called Zangla Monastery due to a mistake made first probably by Tivadar Duka, biographer of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and later by Ervin Baktay, an Indologist who visited Zangla in 1928 to identify the locations related to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and suffering from malaria fever, described Zangla Palace – probably due to the Shrine and some monks living there – as a Monastery.