Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche founded the small monastery of Thrangu Tashi Choling in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal in 1976.
Since then, he has founded a retreat center, college and free medical clinic at Namo Buddha, east of the Kathmandu Valley, and has established SMD Boarding School in Boudhanath for the general education of Himalayan children and young
monks and nuns in Western subjects as well as in Buddhist studies.
Near Kathmandu, he built Thrangu Tara Abbey, which offers a full dharma education for Tibetan nuns, training them to become khenmos, or teachers.
Thrangu
Rinpoche recently completed a large, beautiful monastery in Sarnath,
India, overlooking the Deer Park where the Buddha gave his first
teaching on the Four Noble Truths. This monastery is named Vajra Vidya
after the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, and it is now the seat for the
annual Kagyu conference led by His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa.
