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http:\/\/ww<\/span>w.f<\/span>reetibet.org\/events\/tashi-lhunpo-monks-acton<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ww<\/span>w.ta<\/span>shilhunpo.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ww<\/span>w.e<\/span>cotourism.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ww<\/span>w.h<\/span>rw.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n www<\/span>.t<\/span>ashi-lhunpo.org.uk<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Tashilhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: \u0f56\u0f40\u0fb2\u0f0b\u0f64\u0f72\u0f66\u0f0b\u0f63\u0fb7\u0f74\u0f53\u0f0b\u0f54\u0f7c\u0f0b), founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama, is a historic and culturally important monastery next to Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was sacked when the Gurkhas invaded Tibet and captured Shigatse in 1791 before a combined Tibetan and Chinese army drove them back as far as the outskirts of Kathmandu, when they were forced to agree to keep the peace in future, pay tribute every five years, and return what they had looted from Tashilhunpo. The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelukpa tradition. The „Tashi“ or Panchen Lama had temporal power over three small districts, though not over the town of Shigatse itself, which was administered by a dzongpön (prefect) appointed from Lhasa.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Located on a hill in the center of the city, the full name in Tibetan of the monastery means: „all fortune and happiness gathered here“ or „heap of glory“. Read More: <\/span>> H<\/span>E<\/span>RE <<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Tashi Lhunpo Monastery<\/strong> is seat to the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet. In 1447 the Monastery was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in Shigatse, Tibet’s second largest city. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet and was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas of the Gelugpa, or Yellow Hat tradition. It has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy and Tantra.<\/span><\/p>\n During the lifetime of the 4th Panchen Lama, Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, there were more than 3,000 monks in the Monastery and by 1959 there were 5,000, with another 2,000 monks affiliated to the monastery living outside Tibet. The Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966-80 both wreaked destruction on Tibet’s monastic institutions, which lost many precious scriptures, statues and images. Many monks were killed or imprisoned and only 250 were able to follow the Dalai Lama into exile.<\/span><\/p>\n