About Tibet Institute Rikon

The Tibet Institute Rikon is a Tibetan monastery located in Zell-Rikon im Tösstal in the Töss Valley in Switzerland. It is an established as a non-profit foundation because Swiss laws resulting from the 19th century secularization movement did until 1973 not allow for the establishment of new monasteries.
Samye Monastery in Dranang

Tibetan Buddhist monasteries around the world

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May
2022
Monasteries, Monuments
Tibetan are works of architectural, pictorial, decorative and landscape art. Although there were many householder-yogis in Tibet, monasticism was the foundation of Buddhism in Tibet. There were over 6,000 monasteries in Tibet the Cultural Revolution. Since then most of the major monasteries have been at least partially re-established, while many others remain in ruins. Mongolian Buddhism derives from the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. In Mongolia during the 1920s, approximately one third of males were .
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Wat Srinagarindravararam in Gretzenbach

Established Buddhist temples in Switzerland

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2022
Monuments, Temples
Geshe Rabten Rinpoche founded in 1977 in Mont Pèlerin a Buddhist monastery and study centre for European monks, nuns and lay people as well. One year later, in 1978 the Swiss Buddhist Union (Schweizerische Buddhistische Union / Union Suisse des Bouddhistes / Unione Buddhista Svizzera) was founded by the Czech Buddhist Mirko Fryba. Switzerland is now home to several Tibetan-Buddhist and Zen monasteries, among them the located in Zell-Rikon im Tösstal in .
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