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The '''Great Prayer Festival''' (Tib. སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་, ''mönlam chenmo'', [[Wyl.]] ''smon lam chen mo'') took place annually in [[Lhasa]] until 1959. It was first established by [[Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa]] in 1409. Taking place a few days after Losar, it was the most important gathering of the year for the monks of the "[[Three great Gelugpa seats|three great seats]]" of [[Sera]], [[Drepung]] and [[Ganden]] and attracted pilgrims from all over Tibet.

==Further Reading==
*[[Dreyfus, Georges, B.J.]] ''The Sound of Two Hands Clapping'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pages 258-9

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