Ngor

Ngor

Ngor or Ngor Ewam Choden (also Ngor Evam Chokden) (Tibetan: ངོར་ཨེ་ཝམ་ཆོས་ལྡན།, ZYPY: Ngor Êwam Qödän; Chinese: 鄂尔艾旺却丹寺) is the name of a monastery in the Ü-Tsang province of Central Tibet, about 20 km southwest of Shigatse, and is the Sakya school's second most important gompa. It is the main temple of the large Ngor school of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which represents eighty-five percent of the Sakyapa school in Tibet and in exile.

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