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Katok Monastery

Baiyü County, China · built 1159

Kathok Monastery (THL Kathok Gön), also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" in Tibet of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was built after Samye Monastery, in the Kingdom of Dege (Ch. Baiyu County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan), in Tibet's region of Kham also known of as Do Kham.

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