Namling

Namling lies north of the Yarlung Tsangpo in central Tibet, northeast of Shigatse. Its religious landscape includes both Buddhist and Bön institutions. The Fifth Dalai Lama founded Ganden Chökhor at Namling in the seventeenth century, and a chain bridge gave access to the monastery. Farther within the Namling country, the Bön monastery of Yungdrung Ling was founded by Nangton Dawa Gyaltsen in the 1830s, beside the Tsangpo at the foot of a sacred mountain.