Pelme

Pelme is a monastic place in Nangchen, in the eastern Tibetan region of Kham. Its monastery, Pelme Tekchen Evam Gatsel Ling, belongs to the Drikung Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Founded in 1640, it became part of the rich religious landscape of Nangchen, where several Kagyu lineages established monasteries among the high valleys of the plateau.