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The '''Great Prayer Festival''' (Tib. སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་, [[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.
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==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 19:01, 7 March 2018

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 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