檢視 Katok Monastery 的原始碼

[[Image:Katok.JPG|frame|'''Katok Monastery''' courtesy of Stefan Eckel]]
'''Katok Monastery''' (Tib. ཀཿཐོག་, [[Wyl.]] ''kaHthog'') aka '''Katok Dorje Den''' (Tib. ཀཿཐོག་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གདན་, Wyl. ''kaHthog rdo rje'i gdan'') — the oldest of the [[Six "Mother" Nyingma Monasteries]]. It was founded by [[Katok Dampa Deshek]], younger brother of [[Phagmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo]], in 1159, above Horpo, in East Tibet. The site is considered to be one of [[twenty-five holy places of Eastern Tibet]] and represents the main holy place of [[enlightened activity]]. After the original monastery had fallen into disrepair, a new monastery was built on the site in 1656 by Tertön [[Rigdzin Düddul Dorje]] (1615-1672) and Rigdzin [[Longsal Nyingpo]] (1625-1692). There were approximately 800 monks at the monastery before the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

The monastery had a reputation for fine scholarship and produced some of the greatest scholars in Tibetan history, such as [[Katok Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu]] (1698-1755) and Getse Pandita [[Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup]] (b. 1761). More recently, [[Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso]] and [[Khenpo Ngawang Palzang]], aka Khenpo Ngakchung, were among the greatest lamas associated with the monastery.

==Further Reading==
===In Tibetan===
*ཀཿཐོག་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མདོར་བསྡུས་, ''kaHthog pa'i lo rgyus mdor bsdus''
:{{TBRC|W20396|ཀཿཐོག་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མདོར་བསྡུས་, ''kaHthog pa'i lo rgyus mdor bsdus''}}

===In English===
*Jann M. Ronis, “Celibacy, Revelations, and Reincarnated Lamas: Contestation and Synthesis in the Growth of Monasticism at Katok Monastery from the 17th through 19th Centuries” (unpublished PhD thesis)

==Internal Links==
*Katok Getse Incarnation Line
*Katok Gyaltsap Incarnation Line
*Katok Moktsa Incarnation Line
*[[Katok Situ Incarnation Line]]
*[[Trimé Shyingkyong Incarnation Line]]

==Notes==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/study/history_buddhism/buddhism_tibet/nyngma/brief_history_katog_monastery.html A Brief History of Katog Monastery by Alexander Berzin]

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