Taklung Monastery（，also rendered as Dalong Monastery, is a Tibetan Buddhism monastery located in Taklung Town, Nagarzê County, Shannan, Tibet. It stands on the summit of an east–west oriented mountain at an elevation of about 4,500 meters.
The hilltop fortress is largely in ruins and may be the original monastery founded in 1180.
History Founded in 1180 CE (Southern Song period) by Taklung Kagyu founder Taklung Thangpa Tashi Pal, a sub-school of the Kagyu (the “White School”) of Tibetan Buddhism, it is one of the principal seats of the Taklung Kagyu tradition (another is the Taklung Monastery located in Lhünzhub County near Lhasa, commonly known as “Northern Taklung,” while the one in Langkazi County is called “Southern Taklung”).
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