Shechen Monastery

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The Shechen Monastery (Tibetan: ཞེ་ཆེན་; Wylie: Zhe-chen) is one of the primary Nyingma monasteries in Tibet. It was founded in 1695. There are also now Shechen monasteries in Nepal and India.