Sakya Rinchen Choling Nunnery
Preserving Buddha-Dharma - in Tibetan Nuns Tradition
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Development of Sakya Nunnery
 - 1993
Batches of nuns started   arriving from Tibet  
 
 1996
Land offered by H.E Luding Khen Chenpo
 
 1998
Nunnery officially established by His Holiness
Dormitory completed - About 170 nuns (ages 7 to 70) were accommodated.
Mar 2005
Ground Breaking for Temple - by H.E. Ratna Vajra Rinpoche and H.E. Jnana Vajra Rinpoche
Mar 2009
Soft Opening of Temple by His Holiness
Sep 2009
Inauguration of Sakya College for Nuns by His Holiness 
First cohort of Nuns were admitted.
Mar 2011
Expression of Interest in Setting up Sakya Nuns' Retreat Centre 
Initiative of Gyalyum Kushola and Lama Lekshay. 
 

 
 
 


Sakya Rinchen Choling Nunnery -
Continuity of the Tibetan Nuns Tradition
 
 


Preserving pure Buddha -Dharma - in Tibetan Nuns' Tradition: studying, contemplating and meditating for the sake of all sentient beings.

 
 


 

Page dedicated to late soft-spoken and gentle Australian nun Ani Tenzin Wangmo (1960 - 2002) for creating a portfolio consisting of the plans for Sakya Nunnery in 1995/6.