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Kyedor Sangak Dargye Ling Dratsang (kya'i rdor gsang sngags dar rgyas gling grwa tshang), or Kyedor Dratsang (kya'i rdor grwa tshang), meaning ‘Hevajra College,’ is one of the four Tantric colleges of Labrang Tashikhyil (bla brang bkra shis 'khyil) Monastery, the others being Gyume Dratsang (rgyud smad grwa tshang), Gyuto Dratsang (rgyud stod grwa tshang), and Dukhor Dratsang (dus 'khor grwa tshang). Labrang also has two non-tantric monastic colleges—Tsenyi Dratsang (mtshan nyid grwa tshang) and Menpa Dratsang (sman pa grwa tshang).

The college was established in 1879/1881 by the Fourth Jamyang Zhepa, Kelzang Tubten Wangchuk ('jam dbyangs bzhad pa 04 skal bzang thub bstan dbang phyug, 1856–1916). It focuses on the practice of Hevajra Tantra (kyai rdo rje'i rgyud).

Sources

Nietupski, Paul. 2011. Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, pp. 21.

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