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[[File:Ngorchen.png|frame|[[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]]]]
'''Ngor Ewam Chöden Monastery''' (ངོར་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན་, Wyl. ''ngor e waM chos ldan'') — an important [[Sakya]] monastery, and seat of the [[Ngor]] subschool, established by [[Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo]] around 1430. The monastery was named Ngor Ewam Chöden because during construction Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo dreamt that the whole collection of dharma arises from the letters E (་ཨེ)  and WAM (་ཝཾ་).  Before being completely demolished during the Chinese invasion, it was a very active monastery, counting about 1,000 monks in the 1950s. It has only been partly reconstructed.

Ngor Monastery is divided into four monastic houses (Tib. བླ་བྲང་, ''[[labrang]]''; Wyl. ''bla brang''):
*Luding (ཀླུ་སྡིངས་, ''klu sdings''),
*Khangsar (ཁང་གསར་, ''khang gsar''),
*[[Thartse]] (ཐར་རྩེ་, ''thar rtse'') and
*Phende (ཕན་བདེ, ''phan bde'')

==Ngor Monastery in Exile==
*Ngor Monastery was re-established in Manduwala, India.

==Further Reading==
*Ronald Davidson, ''The Ngor-pa Tradition'' in ''Wind Horse'', vol. 1, 1981, pp.79-98
*David Jackson, ''Sources on the Chronology and Succession of the Abbots of Ngor E-waṃ-chos-ldan'', Berliner Indologische Studien. Band 4/5: 49-93, 1989.
*David P. Jackson, ''The 'Bhutan Abbot' of Ngor: Stubborn Idealist with a Grudge against Shugs-ldan'' in ''Lungta 14'', 2001

==Internal Links==
*[[Throneholders of Ngor Monastery]]

==External Links==
*[http://treasuryoflives.org/institution/Ngor-Ewam-Choden Treasury of Lives]
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/ngor/index.html Ngor Tradition Outline at Himalayan Arts]
*[http://www.ludingfoundation.org/NgorMonastery.html Ngor Monastery, India]

[[Category:Sakya Monasteries]]
[[Category:Tibet]]