Monastic residences sprouting up around the shell of a destroyed residential building

After suffering widespread damage during the difficulties beginning in the 1950s, a significant rebuilding process  began in the 1980s to restore Dzogchen to some of its former effectiveness. Most of the physical plant of the monastery remains unrestored, but a number of significant buildings have been rebuilt and Dzogchen now is a viable and functioning institution within modern-day Tibet.

Currently, the smaller shrineroom, known as Lhasar, has been rebuilt with the original suites and office of Dzogchen Rinpoche and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. A few kilometers from  Dzogchen Monastery is the Shri Singha monastic university, which has been restored, and where many hundreds of monks and reincarnate tulkus are being trained in the ancient traditions of philosophy, theology and meditative sciences.

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Dzogchen Monastery in modern-day India