Riwoche Monastery

Riwoche Monastery
The Jnapatapa 14th-century cloth depiction of the abbot of Riwoche Monastery.
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Taklung Kagyu
Location
Location	Riwoqê County, Chamdo Prefecture, known as Kham, Tibet
Country	China
Location within Tibet
Geographic coordinates	31°09′N 96°29′E / 31.150°N 96.483°E / 31.150; 96.483
Architecture
Founder	Sangye On
Date established	1276

Riwoche Monastery, or Riwoche Tsukla Khang Tragyelma (Tib. ri-bo-che;^[1] Ch. Leiwuqi Si) is a Taklung Kagyu monastery of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded in 1276 by Sangye On, and is one of the oldest and largest monasteries in eastern Tibet. A highly respected Kham regional monastery, it's also famous for its philosophers and logicians, and for the red, black and white painted tree-trunk columns.

Riwoche Monastery is situated 29 km north of the small town of Ratsaka (also known as Riwoche Town), and 134 km west of Chamdo in Kham. It is at an altitude of about 3,400 metres (11, 152 ft) in a fertile valley containing the Dzi River, a tributary to the Mekong River.^[2]