A highly respected Kham regional monastery, it's also famous for its philosophers and logicians, and for the red, black and white painted tree-trunk columns.

It became the main branch of the Taklung Kagyu in Kham and, according to Go Lotsawa, the author of the Blue Annals, it once had as many as 2,000 monks, and held the greatest reputation among Khampa monasteries.

[7] It is very imposing, supported by huge tree trunks and painted in black red and white vertical stripes, which is distinctive of the Taklung lineage.

The monastery contained a notable 14th-century cloth painting entitled Jnanatapa which was unearthed in recent years.

[3] The central figure depicts the Onpo Lama Rinpoche and the spiritual lineage of Riwoche monastery.