Patron

Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso

1 site in the atlas names Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso as patron.

Arunachal PradeshIndia

Sites here

record naming this patron

Geographic span

Arunachal Pradesh

from the site records

Structures span

17th c.

the buildings' dates, not the patron's

These centuries are the minimum and maximum of the built ranges of the sites below — several of which have older cores this patron did not raise. The atlas states no dates for the patron: it carries no sourced field for them.

Sites

Tawang Monastery (Gaden Namgyal Lhatse)

Tawang (3,000 m), Arunachal Pradesh · India

1680–81

As the records write it

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Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso (sanctioned by the 5th Dalai Lama)

Sources

3 citations across 1 site record. The attribution above is only as good as these.

Tawang Monastery (Gaden Namgyal Lhatse) — Wikipedia · Tawang District Administration, Govt of Arunachal Pradesh — History · Tawang District Administration — How to Reach

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derived from the patron field of 1 record · no patron biography is stored or inferred · sources retrieved 2026-08-26