Sherabling Monastery
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Sherabling is the seat of Tai Situ Rinpoche, a renowned Buddhist monk of the Karma Kagyu sect.
He was responsible for the selection of the sect's spiritual leader, the 17th Karmapa, who fled Tibet three years ago.
The monastery is about 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, which has been the seat of the Tibetan government in exile for more than four decades.
The Dalai Lama and thousands of his followers fled Tibet to India in 1959 after a failed repression by the Chinese.
The present monastery
In 1975, the 12th Kenting Tai Situpa's disciples from Derge and Nangchen regions [of Tibet] who settled in Bir, Himachal Pardesh Northern India, donated a protected pine forested land located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Here he started to establish Palpung Sherabling, which later became his seat in India. The building was designed by Kenting Tai Situpa, and is built of modern materials and finished in traditional Tibetan architectural fashion. The concept of the design follows the ancient science of geomancy. Palpung Sherabling cultivates and preserves the artistic lineage of the Palpung tradition. The monastery, only a few miles from the nearest town, retains its calmness and isolation.
It has 250 monks' quarters, (which accommodate over 500 monks) three shrine halls, six shrine rooms, and all of the traditional and modern monastic features. Palpung Sherabling also has retreat houses for monks and nuns and individual cabins for lay practitioners.
The 12th Kenting Tai Situpa is progressively developing Palpung Sherabling according to his ideal: i) to build a seat for a great master; ii) to establish a place to display and maintain the culture and lineage of Tibetan Buddhism; iii) as a place to educate the masters of the next generation; and, above all, iv) to transform this pure land into the Wisdom Deities' Mandala.
