L114: sde dge lhun grub steng /
Type
Status
Active
Names
- sde dge dgon chen/ Ⓢ
Foundation Remarks
- circumstances of its founding sketched in Stearns 2007 (pp. 55f.)
- "It was about this time — the middle of the fifteenth century — that Bo-thar invited the renowned monk, Thang-stong-rgyal-po, to select a site for the building of a monastery which was later destined to become the Great Monastery of Lhun-grub-steng, the foremost centre of the Sa-skya-pa sect in Khams. But at this time only 108 cells for Sa-skya-pa inmates, a ceremonial number, were erected. The period of real grandeur of this monastery commenced only with the thirty-seventh generation, when the abbacy was offically established there [...]." sde dge'i rgyal rabs [1968] (pp. 31-32)
BDRC ID: G4449
