Mindrolling Monastery

Mindrolling Monastery
སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན་པ་
Mindrolling Monastery, Tibet Autonomous Region
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Location
Location	Lhasa Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Shown within Tibet
Geographic coordinates	29°11′07″N 91°24′22″E / 29.18519°N 91.40598°E / 29.18519; 91.40598
Architecture
Date established	1676; 349 years ago (1676)

Mindrolling Monastery (Tibetan: སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: min-dröl-ling gön-pa, THL: smin-grol-gling dgon-pa, English: "Sublime Island of Ripening Liberation"), is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma school in Tibet. It was founded by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa in 1676.^[1] Tendrak Lingpa's lineage is known as the Nyo lineage. The name in Tibetan means "Place of Perfect Emancipation". It is located in Zhanang County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, known as U-Tsang. Mindrolling Monastery is approximately 43 kilometers east of the Lhasa airport, on the south side of the Tsangpo river.