In Phagri, it is customary for a monastery of another lineage to receive geshes from the Upper Tantric College (Gyutö) every three years. The exceptional scholar Geshe Palden Tendar was one of the geshes who were seconded to Phagri.
Geshe Palden Tendar
However, at the end of his three-year tenure, Geshe Tendar stayed on in Phagri and established his own monastery with a magnificent Maitreya statue. The monastery is situated at a very strategic location, just an hour away from Bhutan and close to India. It is a branch of Gaden Shartse College, the home monastery of Geshe Tendar.
Geshe Tendar also built a hermitage in the mountains at the request of the local people of Phagri, where he engaged in many intensive Yamantaka retreats and continued to benefit those in the area.
His Eminence Choyang Duldzin Kuten Lama
Together with His Eminence Kyabje Domo Geshe Rinpoche, Geshe Tendar began proliferating the Gelug tradition in this remote part of Tibet. As both great Lamas were Dorje Shugden practitioners, the Protector practice also took root with the establishment of this monastery.
As time went by, the monastery flourished and eventually became home to Venerable Choyang Duldzin Kuten Lama, one of the official oracles of Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden who was famed for taking trance of Dorje Shugden in his peaceful form.
Kuten Lama remained in Phagri Monastery until 1950, serving the people of Phagri as an oracle and bringing many benefits to those residing in that region.
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Fong
Posted on September 7, 2016 #1 AuthorWow, Phagri Monastery was home to Venerable Choyang Duldzin Kuten Lama, famed for taking trance of Dorje Shugden in his peaceful form!
Geshe Palden Tendar with H. E. Kyabje Domo Geshe Rinpoche, did such fantastic work. Especially Geshe Palden Tendar who not only started the monastery but also built a hermitage nearby as well. And, in such a inhospitable place.
The kindness and compassion of these lamas a beyond normal comprehension.
Choong
Posted on November 15, 2017 #2 AuthorIt is of no coincidence that the previous incarnation of H.E. the 25th Tsem Rinpoche, Kentrul Thubten Lamsang, was also in Pagri during the same period as Ven. Choyang Duldzin Kuten, the former sent there by Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche to spread the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa. I would imagine that they would have known each other rather well as Pagri is such a small and remote place.
http://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/autobiography/kentrul-thubten-lamsang.html
Alice Tay
Posted on January 4, 2018 #3 AuthorGeshe Palden Tendar was dedicated and for the benefit of others, he chose to stay on in Phagri and established the monastery that is situated at a very strategic location, just an hour away from Bhutan and close to India. Like H.E. Kyabje Domo Geshe Rinpoche, Geshe Palden Tendar was also devoted to Dorje Shugden.
Later, Phagri Monastery flourished and eventually became home to Dorje Shugden oracle, Venerable Choyang Duldzin Kuten Lama, that was very much beneficial to many people in that area.