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Pewar is a small Sakya monastery in Derge. It was initially a Drigung Kagyu community dating to the early-thirteenth century, founded by Pelden Jangchub Lingpa, but was soon converted in the wake of the Drigung-Sakya conflict at the end of the century.

 

Sources

dkar mdzes khul gyi dgon sde so soʼi lo rgyus gsal bar bshad pa, Vol. 1. 1995. Reb gong pa ʼjigs med bsam grub, ed. Pe cin: Krung goʼi bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang, pp. 466-471.

Gyurme Dorje. 2004. Tibet Handbook. Bath: Footprint, p. 500.

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