Sakya Rinchen Choling
Continuing Tibetan Nuns Tradition
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Development of Sakya Nunnery
 - 1993
Nuns arriving from Tibet  
Created need for accommodation.
 1996
Land offered by H.E Luding Khen Chenpo
The site is in Dekyi Tibetan Community, about 5 minutes' drive from Sakya Centre, Rajpur.
 1998
Nunnery officially established by His Holiness 
Dormitory completed - About 170 nuns (ages 7 to 70) were ccommodated. 
 
 
 March 2005
Ground Breaking for  Temple by H.E. Ratna Rinpoche and H.E. Jnana Vajra Rinpoche 
The Project was expanded
to include a new wing for the Nuns' dormitory.
 
 29 March 2009
Soft Opening of Temple by His Holiness
Sakya Trizin 
Followed by teachings.
 
 
Sakya Rinchen Choling Nunnery -
Continuity of the Tibetan Nuns Tradition
 
Officially established as a non-profit community in 1998 by His Holiness Sakya Trizin for the sake of Sakya Tibetan nuns outside Tibet, it is home to about 250 Sakya nuns.  
 
 
Main Gurus
His Holiness Sakya Trizin
His Holiness Dagchen Rinpoche
H.E. Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
H.E. Jnana Vajra Rinpoche
H.E. Luding Khen Chenpo
H.E. Luding Khen Chun
H.E. Jetsun Kusho-la
 
Adminstrator - sakyanunnery_office
 
Main Daily Practice 
Tara Pujas
 
 
 
 
 

 
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