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Dodzong is a Drukpa Kagyu monastery in Kham, and is considered a branch monastery of Khampa Gar. Dodzong was orignally a Yelpa Kagyu monastery that was founded by Yelpa Yeshe Tsek, in 1192. It is the seat of the Dodzong incarnation line. Currently a Drukpa Kagyu monastery, it was rebuilt in the 1980's in a new location after having been destroyed in the 1950's. 

Sources

Gruschke, Andreas. 2004. The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces. Volume 1: The TAR part of Kham, Tibetan Autonomous Region. Thailand: White Lotus Press, pp. 59, 122.

Gyurme Dorje. 2009. Tibet Handbook. Bath: Footprint, p. 573.

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