Gaden Choeling Nunnery or Ganden Choeling is a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Dharamsala, India. It is located near the monastery in which His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama resides.
The Gaden Choeling Nunnery was started by nuns who fled from the Nechung Ri Nunnery in Tibet, destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.[1] It is the largest and oldest Tibetan nunnery in India. Since most of the nunneries in Tibet are no longer operational, it may be the largest in the world.[2] The nunnery is built on a steep hillside in Dharamsala.[3] The nunnery is only a ten minute walk from the main temple in McLeod Ganj. As of 1999 there were almost 150 nuns in residence.[4]
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Another nunnery with the same name, Gaden Choeling nunnery, is located in Kardze in Kham, a province of ancient Tibet. Ten nuns from this nunnery in Tibet were initially involved in the 2008 Tibetan protests.[5]