Tradun

Tradun is a monastery in the upper Yarlung Tsangpo country of western Tibet. Its temple is associated with the Sakya school and with the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo. Tradition counts it among the temples built to subdue a demoness whose body was imagined to lie across Tibet, assigning this site to her right knee. Tradun stood on the long route linking western Tibetan trading centres with Shigatse and Lhasa.