DERGE PARKANG AND PRINTING HOUSE

was founded in 1729 and eventually completed in 1750. Derge Parkhang was the biggest printing house throughout Tibet and it not only contains an enormous bullock of printing board of the all different sects of Buddhist religion in Tibet but also numerous texts of other Tibetan culture like medicine, divination, history, grammar, biography, poem, history etc. Here the Sakya School Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen produced his own edition of the Kagyur and Tangyur, generally considered as the most accurate in Tibet.