Nechung

The Nechung Monastery is a Buddhist monastery of the Gelug school in the area of Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The monastery is situated near the Drepung Monastery. It is the site of the Nechung oracle, which is consulted by the Dalai Lama on important matters. This " state oracle " was located initially at Samye monastery and was moved in the 17th century at the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama to here.

Founding myth

An oracle deity was said to be in the area on tour and, after it should have taken a medium in possession, locked by the wife of the medium in a box and exposed in that box on the river Lhasa He.

Lama Cogpa ​​Jangchub Pälden, who was near the later Drepung Monastery, should then have had a vision and sent one of his students made ​​to recover the box.

The students found the box and transported them on his shoulders until it was so hard for him that he had to settle. Out of curiosity, he should have opened the box, whereupon a white dove flew out of the box and sat down on a birch. Lama Cogpa ​​to have said then:

" The Dharmapala is great, but the place [Tib ne] is small [Tib tion ]! "

This was the name Lama Cogpa ​​that place and left it there then allegedly built the monastery.