Gaden Jangtse Tsawa Monastery in Mungod village,
Karnataka, is one of the many Tibetan monasteries in Mungod. The young monks are taught prayer, scripture studies and philosophical issues of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and dialects have been preserved here. Tibetan and English are taught along with Buddhist rituals and chanting.
The original Gaden Monastery was established in 1409, in Lhasa, Tibet
by the great teacher and scholar, Je Tsong Khapa. It was the second
largest monastery in Tibet, at one point housing 7,000 monks. Nothing
of that monastery remains today. Gaden Monastery has been
rebuilt in South India and within this there are two
monasteries - Gaden Jangtse (North College) and Gaden Shartse (East
College.) Each monastery comprises twelve houses (khangtsens.)
The khangtsen is used by the monks for their daily accommodation. The monks who live in Tsawa Khangtsen at Gaden Jangtse come from the Himalayan region of Tibet.
Gaden Jangtse offers its residents free accommodation, food, clothing, health care, school supplies and education from the basic level up to the equivalent of a Ph. D. in Buddhist studies.
Mungod is one hour drive from Hubli.
