Drepung Loseling Monastery is located in
Tibetan Colony,
Mundgod,
Karnataka India. There are over 5,000
celibate monks, with around 3,000 at
Drepung Loseling and some 2,000 at Drepung Gomang. Hundreds of new
monks are admitted each year, many of them
refugees from
Tibet.
Drepung in Tibet was modeled after the great
monasteries of Classical
Buddhist India, namely,
Nalanda and
Vikramalashila, and was an institution dedicated to the intense
study of the
traditional Buddhist arts and sciences.
History of Drepung Loseling
Monastery
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