Wara

Wara is a Sakya monastery in the mountain country west of Derge. Its religious history is associated with the kings of Derge, who regarded it as an ancestral monastery. Tradition holds that it was once a Bon foundation before the Sakya teacher Phagpa, imperial preceptor under the Mongol Yuan, brought it into his school. The monastery stands beside the Wara River, among the valleys of eastern Tibet.