Menri Monastery

Menri Monastery
Menri Monastery
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྨན་རི་
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	sman ri

Menri
Menri
Religion
Affiliation	Bon
Year consecrated	1405
Location
Location	Namling County, Tibet Autonomous Region
	Location within people's Republic of China Menri Monastery (China)
Geographic coordinates	29°30′32″N 89°32′06″E / 29.509°N 89.535°E
Architecture
Founder	Nyamme Shérap Gyeltsen (Wylie: mnyam med shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1356–1416)

Menri Monastery (Tibetan: སྨན་རི་, Wylie: sman ri — "medicine mountain") is the name of a Bon monastery in Tibet that has been refounded in India. The name derives from the medicinal plants and medicinal springs on the mountain.^[1] Menri became the leading Bon monastery in the Tibetan cultural region. The abbot of Menri is recognized as the spiritual leader of Bon.

^ Berzin, Alexander (1991). "A Brief History of Menri Monastery". Study Buddhism. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

[berzin-1] Berzin, Alexander (1991). "A Brief History of Menri Monastery". Study Buddhism. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

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