Samding Monastery

Samding ( bsam lding dgon ) is a monastery of Bodong school, a sub- school of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, in a circle Nagarze ( Nakartse ) in the district of Shannan ( Lhokha ) of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People 's Republic of China, east of the headquarters of the county government and near the western shore of the lake Yardrog Yutsho.

Samding was probably founded in the late 13th century and was the only Tibetan monastery with a female reincarnated abbess of Samding Dorje Phagmo. During the Cultural Revolution the monastery was completely destroyed in 1985 they began to rebuild. Mid-90s, lived in Samding around 50 nuns.

The monastery has Samding Lionel Davidson to his 1962 novel, The rose of Tibet ( German: The Rose of Tibet) encouraged. In it there is a fictional monastery called Yamdring whose name merges the real and the monastery of the nearby lake.