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The Ganden Monastery, one of the four major monasteries of the Gelug Sect in Lhasa, stands on Wangbur Mountain in Dagze County, some 60 km from downtown Lhasa.
In 1409, Zongkapa built the ancestral monastery of the Gelug Sect with the financial aid of the royal family of Nedong. Taking Ganden Monastery as the base, the Gelug Sect was formally established. The monks of the sect wore yellow hats, so the sect was known as the “Yellow Sect”.
The first Panchen Erdeni Kezhugyi was the first disciple of Zongkapa and the first Dalai Lama Gendun Zhuba was the youngest disciple of Zongkapa. As the major educational institute in the history of Tibet, the monastery contributed to medicine, astronomy, calendar, philosophy and literature and the artistic fields of music, dance, drama and painting of the Tibetan ethnic group, promoting the development of Tibetan traditional culture and prosperity of Tibetan Buddhism.
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