Shyichen Monastery

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Shyichen Monastery (Tib. མགོ་ལོག་གཞི་ཆེན་དགོན་, Wyl. mgo log gzhi chen dgon, or Tib. གཞི་ཆེན་མཁར་དམར་གསང་སྔགས་བཏེན་རྒྱས་གླིང་, Wyl. gzhi chen mkhar dmar gsang sngags bten rgyas gling), Golok Shyichen Kharmar Sangngé Tengyé Ling, is one of the eight main branch monasteries of Katok Monastery.

Located in Golok, it is the seat of the Zhichen Bairo incarnation line (the lateste one being Bairo Rinpoche). It was founded by gling bzhag o rgyan lhun grub, a student of one of the Trimé Shyingkyong and nges don dgang po.

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