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Ngor orNgor Éwam Chöden (Tibetan:ངོར་ཨེ་ཝམ་ཆོས་ལྡན།,Chinese:鄂尔艾旺却丹寺) is the name of a monastery in theÜ-Tsang province ofTibet about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest ofShigatse and is theSakya school's second most importantgompa.^[1] It is the main temple of the large Ngor school ofVajrayanaBuddhism, which represents eighty-five percent of the Sakya school.^{[citation needed]}

The origins of the Ngor school go back to Ngorchen Kunga Sangpo (also Kunga Zangpo or Kun dga 'bzang po,Tibetan:ངོར་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་བཟང་པོ།) (1382-1444 CE), who was born and educated at Sakya and founded this monastery in 1429.^[2] It was renowned for its rich library of Sanskrit texts and magnificent 15th-centuryNewar-derived paintings. Of its 18 colleges, and Upper and Lower Tsokangs, only one building, the Lamdre Lhakang, has been restored. There were once some 400 monks, but now there are only a few.^[3][4][5]

Below the lhakang there is a row of 60 stupa renovated but missing the magnificentmandala paintings they once contained, but which are now preserved in Japan and have been documented and published.^[6]

Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrup, born inSakya in 1497, was a famous practitioner who became the tenth abbot of Ngor Ewam Choden monastery.

The two other main sects of the Sakya school are Sakya proper andTsar. The main Ngor temples are found in theKham region of Tibet.

The Ngorpa school is characterized by an emphasis ontantra balanced with study and practice. It is known for a mastery of ritual and practice of long retreats including lifelong retreats. The present leader of the Ngor is HE Luding (or Lhuding) Khenpo, who now lives in northern India.^[7]

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• Dowman, Das (1988).The Power-places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London & New York.ISBN 0-7102-1370-0.
• Mayhew, Bradley and Kohn, Michael.Tibet. (2005). 6th Edition. Lonely Planet.ISBN 1-74059-523-8.
• Tucci, Giuseppe. (1980).The Religions of Tibet. University of California Press. Paperback edition 1988.ISBN 0-520-03856-8 (cloth);ISBN 0-520-06348-1 (pbk.)
• von Schroeder, Ulrich. 2001.Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet. Vol. One:India & Nepal; Vol. Two:Tibet & China. (Volume One: 655 pages with 766 illustrations; Volume Two: 675 pages with 987 illustrations). Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, Ltd.ISBN 962-7049-07-7 Ngor pp. 554, 706, 870, 872, 1082, 1124, 1131, 1206, 1208–1216, 1209, 1210, 1212, 1214, 1216; Lam ’bras lha khang («lamdre lhakhang»); Pls. 40, 50C, 106B–C, 170C, 257A, 281D, 330–335; gTsug lag khang («tsuglagkhang»), Fig. XVIII–4; Plates 106D, 255A, 304D–E.

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