Gyamda or Ngapo Zampa is a village

Village

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 in Gyamda County of the Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region

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 of China

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 on the upper Nyang River

Nyang River

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 at an altitude of 3,200 metres.
The Neu Dechen Gon Monastery sits above the town. It is associated with the teaching of the late Dudjom Rinpoche

Dudjom Rinpoche

Dudjom Rinpoche is the title of a prominent line of tulkus of the Nyingmapa order of Tibetan Buddhism. Dudjom Rinpoche was born in 1904 on the tenth day of the sixth month in the year of the wood dragon in Southern Tibet in a region called the "hidden land" of Pema Ko. He died on January 17, 1987...

 (1904–1987) who died in France. He was the head of the Nyingmapa school in exile.

Nearby are the Tselha Namsum meditation caves associated with the female yogini

Yogini

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 Machig Labdrön

Machig Labdrön

Machig Labdrön was a renowned 11th century Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practitioner and teacher....

(1005–1149).