Nechung
| Nechung Monastery | |
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག |
| Wylie transliteration | gnas-chung lcog |
| Official transcription (China) | Naiqung Gönba |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| Traditional | 乃琼寺 |
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| Coordinates | 29°40′17″N 91°3′21″E / 29.67139°N 91.05583°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Doilungdêqên District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Gelug |
| Lineage | Seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. |
Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: gnas-chung lcog, ZYPY: Naiqung Gönba) or Nechung Chok (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག, ZYPY: Naiqung Jog "the small dwelling", Chinese: 乃琼寺), is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet.
It is also referred to as Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar, the "Demon Fortress of the Oracle King."
It is about 10 minutes walk down from Drepung Monastery, and was the residence of the three-headed, six-armed Pehar, the chief protector of the Gelugs (Yellow Hat sect) and the seat of the State Oracle or Nechung Oracle. It is medium-sized temple which used to house about a hundred monks.
It was the seat of State Oracle until 1959 when he fled with the Dalai Lama to India who now lives in exile in Dharamsala, India. The Dalai Lamas traditionally always consulted him before making an important decision.
It was the residence of the Protector Pehar, a deity of the Horpas, who lived to the east of (Lake) Kokonor. According to tradition, he is held to have been originally brought to Samye Monastery by Padmasambhava who bound him to protect the dharma. An alternative story is that he was brought back by a Bon general, Tara Lugong, who took possession of the meditation school near Kanchow of the Bhaţa Hor, a tribe of Uighurs, about the end of the 8th century CE. Pehar was regarded as the guardian deity of the treasures of Samye Monastery and, later, as the 'protector of religion'.
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