Sakya Wara monastery
is famous in Tibet, for the place of peacock spread its tail and the Wara River goes
around here as twins golden fish. The great Founder Guru Chogyal Phagpa had turned wheel
of Dharma here and left the statue of Mahagala (Protector Gampo with knife) and other precious gems.
Wara
Monastery is one of the main monastery of Sakya lineage. It was belonged to White Bon
Religion and transformed into Sakya Tradition by Chogyal Phagpa, who bestowed several
supreme Buddha status and guardian statues here. It had been the ancestral monastery of
Dege Jarbo.
H.E.
Dangqu Denpa became monk here in his childhood. Several generations of Sakya Trizin and
Sakya Khenpos used to spread Dharma and benefit beings here.
The
Dharma teachings in Wara monastery are Sakya Lamdre chiefly, and the Non-sectarian
teachings of Dzogchen, Mahamudra.
There
are over 200 monks presently.
