Dorje Drak
| Dorje Drak | |
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་དགོན་པ། |
| Wylie transliteration | rdo rje brag dgon pa |
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| Coordinates | 29°21′11″N 91°07′55″E / 29.353°N 91.132°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture |
| Founded by | The First Rigdzin Godemchen Ngodrub Gyeltsen (1337-1409) |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Nyingma |
Dorjidak Gompa (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: rdo rje brag dgon pa "Indestructible Rock Vihara") or Tupten Dorjidak Dorjé Drak Éwam Chokgar (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་ཨེ་ཝཾ་ལྕོག་སྒར་, Wylie: thub bstan rdo rje brag rdo rje brag e waM lcog sgar) was one of the Six "Mother" Nyingma Monasteries in Tibet. It is located in the Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region, older southeastern Ü-Tsang.
Dorje Drak is also the name of the monastery built to replace it in Shimla, India after the original was destroyed during the Battle of Chamdo. It is now the seat of the throne-holder of the monastery and the tradition. Along with Mindrolling Monastery it is one of the two most important Nyingma monasteries in the region of Ü.
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