Negodong Nunnery

Negodong Nunnery
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
Location
LocationLhasa Prefecture, Tibet, China
CountryChina
Location within Tibet
Geographic coordinates29°43′08″N 91°10′03″E / 29.71889°N 91.16750°E / 29.71889; 91.16750
Architecture
Date established16th century. Became nunnery in the 1930s or 1940s.

Negodong Nunnery is a historical hermitage, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located in the northeastern Lhasa suburb known as Dodé Valley (Dog bde), northeast of Sera, Tibet. Buddhist scholar of the Sera Jé College's (Grwa tshang byes) Gomdé Regional House (Sgom sde khang tshan), Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan. It was initially founded as a monastery with seventeen monks but later allotted for exclusive use as nunnery to provide personal security to the nuns who were then residing in a remote nunnery at Gnas nang (higher valley to the east), away from the present location at Gnas sgo gdong (about an hour's walk).