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Samding Monastery () "The Temple of Soaring Meditation" 〔''To Lhasa in Disguise: A Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet'', p. 294. William Montgomery McGovern. Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Reprint: South Asia Books (1983). ISBN 978-81-7303-001-7.〕 is a gompa built on a hill on a peninsula jutting into Yamdrok Lake about east of Nangkatse. It is located southwest of Lhasa, at an altitude of , on a barren hill about above the lake at the neck of a narrow peninsula jutting out into the water. It is associated with the Bodong and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Samding is the seat of Dorje Pakmo, the consort of the wrathful deity Heruka, who was the highest female incarnation in Tibet,〔''The Power-places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide'', (1988) p. 268. Keith Dowman. ISBN 0-7102-1370-0.〕 and the third highest-ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.〔''The Fourteen Dalai lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation'', p. 175. Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.〕 Closer to Lhasa, there is another branch of Samding Monastery on the small island of Yambu in Rombuza Tso or "corpse-worm bottle lake" (which, apparently, received this unusual name because it was used as a burial place for monks).〔''To Lhasa in Disguise: A Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet'', p. 300. William Montgomery McGovern. Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Reprint: South Asia Books (1983). ISBN 978-81-7303-001-7.〕 The abbess became famous when she turned herself and her nuns into sows to prevent a Mongol raid on the nunnery in 1716 (McGovern gives 1717 for this event). It was destroyed after 1959 but is in the process of being restored.〔〔''Lhasa and Central Tibet'' by Sarat Chandra Das (1902), p. 139. Reprint: Mehra Offset Press, Delhi (1988).〕 Unusually, monks as well as nuns both lived in the monastery under the abbess, Dorje Pakmo, although she now lives in Lhasa. Samding gompa was destroyed after 1959 but is in the process of being restored.〔 ==Description of the monastery== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samding Monastery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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