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Foundation of Samye Monastery
Samye becomes Tibet's first fully established Buddhist monastery under royal patronage.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Samye in Tibet. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Samye becomes Tibet's first fully established Buddhist monastery under royal patronage.
A major debate begins at Samye over competing approaches to Buddhist practice.
The Tibetan court endorses the Indian gradualist tradition after the Samye debate.
Provenance
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