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Ngor
Destroyed Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Shigatse, Tibet, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Ngor (disambiguation).
Ngor or Ngor Éwam Chöden (Tibetan: ངོར་ཨེ་ཝམ་ཆོས་ལྡན།, Chinese: 鄂尔艾旺却丹寺) is the name of a monastery in the Ü-Tsang province of Tibet about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Shigatse and is the Sakya school's second most important gompa.[1] It is the main temple of the large Ngor school of Vajrayana Buddhism, which represents eighty-five percent of the Sakya school.[citation needed]
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