Rato Dratsang
Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rato Dratsang (Dratsang in Tibetan means 'school' or 'university'), also known as Rato Monastery (sometimes spelled Ratö Monastery), Rato Dratsang is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" order. For many centuries, Rato Dratsang was an important monastic center of Buddhist studies in Central Tibet.
Rato Dratsang | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
Sect | Gelug |
Location | |
Location | Currently in the Tibetan Settlement, Mundgod, Karnataka, India, (originally in Central Tibet) |
Country | India |
Geographic coordinates | 15.0326°N 75.00°E / 15.0326; 75.00 |
Architecture | |
Founder | Tak Pa Zang Bo |
Date established | 14th century |
The 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682), referred to Rato Dratsang as Taktsang, or Tiger Nest, because of its fine scholars and debaters. The monastery served as a center for the study of Buddhist philosophy and logic; monks from many other monasteries came to Jang, under Rato’s authority, every year to intensively study and rigorously debate logic.
After 1959, Rato Dratsang was reestablished in a Tibetan Refugee Settlement in Mundgod, Karnataka State, in southern India. The original Rato Dratsang exists in Tibet.
In 1985, the Rato Dratsang Foundation, was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to help the monastery flourish and grow.
In 2012, the Dalai Lama appointed a westerner monk, the Nicholas Vreeland, to be Rato Dratsang’s new Abbot. [1][2][3][4][5]