Pal Sagon Dhungkar Choezom Monastery

This monastery was built over 500 years ago by the earlier Sakya Lineage holders at Tomkot village. It has preserved the specific lineage and promote the Buddhist practices throughout the ages.

Pal Sagon Dhungkar Choezom was established by
Great Lama called Semkar Kunga Gyaltsen

The monastery still maintain the precious old statues of the 3 bodies of Buddha i.e. Truth body, complete enjoyment body and emotion body. Dungkar Choezom Monastery also keep old Buddhist texts and statues of many other deities with relics from previous high lamas holding the blood hierarch of the Sakya lineage.

Main Statue in the monastery is the 13ft statue of Buddha Shakyamuni

Many old statues

Old Stupas containing relics from High Lamas

The present head of the monastery is 14th Lineage Holder, Khon Ngawang Lodoe Rinpoche. He has taken over this Responsibility after the sad demise of his father Khon Kunga Gyaltsen Rinpoche. Apart from Dungkar Choezom Monastery, his father Kunga Gyaltsen Rinpoche had built another Monastery at Setianchal, District Doti, Nepal.

14th Khon Lineage Ngawang Lodoe Rinpoche

Ngawang Lodoe Rinpoche was born in 1977. He is the son of late Khon Kunga Gyaltsen Rinpoche and the 14th Khon lineage holder of Dungkar Choezom Sakya Monastery, Humla Nepal. The monastery was built over 500 years ago by the earlier Sakya Lineage holders.

Coming from a Khon family of long and rich history, Rinpoche entered monastic life at the age of 9. He received his monastic education in Sakya Centre, Dehradun India and completed all his formal study of the traditional rites and rituals of the Sakya tradition. He received high tantric initiations and teachings from His Holiness Sakya Trizin, the late H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche and H.E. Luding Khenchen Rinpoche. He joined the Sakya Institute in Puruwalla, District Himachal Pradesh, India for higher studies in 1994. There he studied the six volume of treatises and successfully completed all the courses over the next 9 years. Upon graduation from Sakya Institute with Loppon degree, which is equivalent to Master Degree, he continued on as a teacher for a number of years.

As a hereditary Lineage holder and the religious teacher in the region he was assigned by His Holiness Sakya Trizin to go back to his monastery to propagate the Buddha Dharma in general and Sakyapa Tradition in particular.

Apart from the said monastery Dungkar Choezom, Rinpoche is also taking care of Pal Sakya Boudha Monastery and a school project at Setianchal, District Doti, Nepal.

Vajrakilaya Grand Puja

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Thank you to all our generous sponsors. With Buddha blessings, we had all the good conditions to proceed with the project ; good construction team, good weather, good supplies due to better accessibility... Now our main building is near completion stage.

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Vajrakilaya Statues

Medicine Buddha Statues

Deepest gratitude to all our sponsors for your contribution towards the restoration of Dhungkar Choezom Monastery. Work will start in June 2013, once we have a clear weather.

The Team responsible for building the project

Preparation for the building of Stupas

Dharma Relic or Tsa Tsa are being made to fill the Stupas

Medicine Buddha Statues in the Medicine Buddha Stupa

Laying the foundation

Preparing Sog Shing, central axis with Golden Mantras

Very auspicious sign with rainbow sighted near the construction of Stupa

Stupas are the focus of prayer and pilgrimage. Just to see a stupa, or walk around it mindfully can purify the results of lifetimes of mistakes. It is said that "To even simply hear the word "Buddha" or to create any link, tenuous though it may be, with any representation of the Buddha's body, speech and mind can plant the seed of liberation, and in the end will lead to the state beyond suffering

Jhangchuk Chorten
(Great Thathagata Bodhi Stupa)
The height of this stupa is approximately 30ft high.

Khangbu tsekpa
(Medicine Buddha Stupa)

Woods are gathered from the surrounding trees and process in a traditional arduous way

Main Challenge to the project is transportation. Building materials have to be transported by yak and horses and thus increases the cost and require longer time . Work cannot continue during the cold season.