Himalayan Art Resource
Dratang Monastery was established as a Kadam institution in 1081 in the Dranang valley in U by Drapa Ngonshe. The monastery, which was later absorbed by the Sakya tradition in the fourteenth of fifteenth century, was damaged by the Dzungar armies in the eighteenth century. It was rennovated in the 1920s and 1930s with sponsorship of the Fifth Reting Rinpoche.