ABOUT

Tergar Monasteries

Tergar Ösel Ling Monastery

Tergar Ösel Ling Monastery is the home of Mingyur Rinpoche. Located at the top of Chhokdol Height, Sitapaila, Kathmandu, Osel Ling is a place of peace, tradition, ritual, education and meditation, and a support to the local surrounding community. The monastery is fully functioning, housing over 150 monks who live, study, meditate and debate together. The monastery is similarly a place of inspiration, study and contemplation for students from all over the world. Tergar Ösel Ling was established by the late meditation master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who later entrusted the monastery to two of his sons, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Tsoknyi Rinpoche oversaw the construction of a large extension at the monastery before handing over the responsibility for the monastery to Mingyur Rinpoche in 2010.

Mingyur Rinpoche established a monastic college (shedra) at the monastery. Intending that this monastery be a focal point for the study of major scriptures of the Buddhadharma, Rinpoche personally and wholeheartedly took responsibility for the monastic college. The monastic college was later entrusted to Khenpo Gyurmé Wangche as its head. To this day, several Khenpos provide teachings here on sutras and tantras, while Mingyur Rinpoche provides profound meditation instructions on both Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

In 2015, Nepal was hit by a powerful earthquake creating great damage and losses. Osel Ling was not spared from the destruction. The original temple and monks' quarters were badly damaged. Therefore, after emerging from his wandering retreat, Mingyur Rinpoche raised funds from devoted sponsors around the world and began to rebuild the monastery. Due to their kindness and generosity, the construction of a grand new temple and new monks' quarters is

Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya

In 1999, Tai Situ Rinpoche asked Mingyur Rinpoche to build a new monastery in Bodhgaya and in 2000 he gave a suitable parcel of land to Mingyur Rinpoche for that purpose. The construction of Pal Tergar Rigdzin Khacho Shedrup Targye Ling was completed in 2006, and by 2010 around 300 monks from India, Nepal, and Tibet had come to study there. In keeping with the Tergar lineage’s emphasis on practice, even the youngest monks at the Bodhgaya monastery practice meditation daily. The traditional Buddhist curriculum has been modernized to include basic science and other conventional academic subjects. Tergar Bodhgaya also hosts the annual visits of the Gyalwang Karmapa during the Kagyu Monlam festival held every winter at the Mahabodhi Stupa in Bodhgaya.