Rongpo

Rongpo is associated with Shak Rongpo Gaden Dargyeling, a Gelug monastery in the highlands of Nagchu. It was established in the seventeenth century by the first Rongpo Chöje, Lobsang Trinley, on the instructions of the Fifth Dalai Lama. The monastery became a religious centre for the surrounding communities of the northern Tibetan plateau.