Chizhi / Chizhing manuscript Kanjur

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"Chizhing Samtencholing was founded by the Sakya master Lodoe Rabyang in the 16th century, although little is known about the founder and his life. The temple houses a rich collection of books including a set of manuscript kanjur and works of the great Sakya scholars in xylographic print. The establishment presents a very unique case for the study of religious history in Bhutan as it was the main Sakya centre in Bhutan, which retained its Sakya affiliation even after the takeover of Bhutan by the Drukpa Kagyu school. The temple is now under the Central Monastic Body following the Drukpa Kagyu school and has seen acts of religious conversion and contestation even in recent years with the formal ban on the worship of a Sakya deity considered malicious by the Central Monastic Body in Bhutan." (source EAP.bl.uk)

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