Waerhdje

Waerhdje is a monastic site in the mountains of Muli, beneath the sacred mountain Dorje. Its great monastery became an early Gelug foundation in a region inhabited by Tibetan and Pumi communities. Accounts of Muli's religious history place its establishment in the 1580s, following a local delegation's appeal to the Third Dalai Lama at Litang. The family of Muli's later hereditary rulers traced its origins to lamas of this monastery.