Dorje Drak

Dorje Drag is a monastery of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism on the north bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo in a circle Gongkar of the governmental district Lhokha in Tibet. The monastery is the original monastery of the teaching tradition of the " Northern Treasures " ( byang gter ) and one of the six main Nyingma monasteries in Tibet. Elsewhere, a monastery was towards the end of the 16th century. built by Trashi Tobgyel (1550-1602) (or extended) and in 1632 by Ngagi Wangpo ( 1580-1639 ) reestablished at its present location. In the 57th year of the Kangxi era ( 1718) in the invasion of the Mongol Dsungars in Tibet, the monastery was badly damaged in the reign of Pholhane ( 1728-1747 ) the damages were repaired.