View large on black
REBUILDING OF TSURPHU MONASTERY
Throughout Tibet and China, many monasteries were destroyed during 1959 and the Cultural Revolution. Tsurphu was no exception, suffering very heavily. This beautiful seat was completely destroyed and was left in total ruin in 1966. No inhabitants were able to remain there; after the destruction you could see from a distance only the the remnants of a mostly collapsed and ruined wall.
In early 1980, when the communist Chinese government opened the Tibet-Nepal border for older Tibetans to visit family and relatives, His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa instructed Venerable Drupon Dechen Rinpoche to go back to Tibet to reconstruct the original seat, Tsurphu Monastery. Reconstruction of Tsurphu was extremely difficult because Tibetan people were very poor and any support they could provide was very limited. However, through the tireless effort of Drupon Dechen Rinpoche and the devotion and dedication of the Tibetan people, many aspects this large complex was rebuilt. After many years of hard work and dedication they completed the partial rebuilding of the main shrine and some of the other parts of the development
www.kagyuoffice.org/mainseats.tsurphu.html
Tags: Tibetan Gompa`s Nikon F100/28-70mm1:2.8D/85mm1:1.4D/20mm1:2.8D/70-300mm1:4-5.6D Thurphu Gompa Jan Reurink (stod-lung-bde-chen)county Dowo Lung Valley Tsurphu Tshurphu mtshur phu dgon བོད། བོད་ལྗོངས། Khambo chu buddhism སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ལུགས། temple དགོན་པ། stupa མཆོད་རྟེན། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། chorten མཆོད་རྟེན༏ སྟོད་ལུང་མཚུར་ཕུ་ tibetan landscape nature Photo story འདྲ་པར སྒྲུང་། drapar drung storytelling photo storytelling photography
Tags: Tibetan Gompa`s Nikon F100/28-70mm1:2.8D/85mm1:1.4D/20mm1:2.8D/70-300mm1:4-5.6D Thurphu Gompa Jan Reurink (stod-lung-bde-chen)county Dowo Lung Valley Tsurphu Tshurphu mtshur phu dgon བོད། བོད་ལྗོངས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tags: Tibetan Gompa`s Nikon F100/28-70mm1:2.8D/85mm1:1.4D/20mm1:2.8D/70-300mm1:4-5.6D Thurphu Gompa Jan Reurink (stod-lung-bde-chen)county Dowo Lung Valley Tsurphu Tshurphu mtshur phu dgon བོད། བོད་ལྗོངས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། Tsurphu Gompa མཚུར་ཕུ་
Tags: Tibetan Gompa`s Nikon F100/28-70mm1:2.8D/85mm1:1.4D/20mm1:2.8D/70-300mm1:4-5.6D Thurphu Gompa Jan Reurink (stod-lung-bde-chen)county Dowo Lung Valley Tsurphu Tshurphu mtshur phu dgon བོད། བོད་ལྗོངས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། Photo story འདྲ་པར སྒྲུང་། drapar drung storytelling photo storytelling photography
Tags: Tibetan Gompa`s Nikon F100/28-70mm1:2.8D/85mm1:1.4D/20mm1:2.8D/70-300mm1:4-5.6D Thurphu Gompa Jan Reurink T O L U N G D E C H (stod-lung-bde-chen)county olung dechen Dowo Lung Valley Tsurphu Tshurphu mtshur phu dgon བོད། བོད་ལྗོངས། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།