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| frame | '''Shri Singha Shedra in the distance below the mountains that surround Dzogchen Monastery''' photo courtesy of Matthew Pistono
Shri Singha Shedra (Tib. ཤྲཱི་སིམཧ་བཤད་གྲྭ, Wyl. shrI simha bshad grwa) — the famous shedra at Dzogchen Monastery founded by Gyalsé Shenpen Thayé in the nineteenth century<ref>Dreyfus (2005) p. 288 gives the year as 1848 </ref>, which produced many of the finest scholars in Tibet. Among the great masters who studied and/or taught at the shedra were Khenpo Pema Vajra, Mipham Rinpoche, Khenpo Shenga, Khenpo Ngakchung, Khenpo Kunpal, Pöpa Tulku and Khenpo Tsöndrü.
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Further Reading
- Dreyfus, Georges B.J., The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003
- Dreyfus, Georges. “Where Do Commentarial Schools Come From? Reflections on the History of Tibetan Scholasticism” in Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (Vol. 28, No. 2), 2005, pp. 273 – 297
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