Ngakpa Apartment Building
(sngags pa spyi khang)

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THL Reference Number: s043a

College Affiliation: Ngakpa (sngags pa)

Regional House Affiliation: none

Today this is a residential apartment building that is part of the Ngakpa College complex. It is inhabited by the monks of the Tantric College (sngags pa grwa tshang). Before 1959, however, the Tantric College had no dormitories of its own, so that Tantric College monks had to live in the rooms of the various regional houses belonging to byes and smad colleges (the tsha regional house of the smad college especially housed many sngags pa monks). The present complex, sngags pa spyi khang, then, must have belonged to another khang tshan before 1959. It may have been that this was originally an apartment house belonging to smad tsha regional house -- perhaps the smad tsha spyi khang known as the "long house" (khang ring) -- but this remains to be confirmed.

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