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# Ganden: A Joyful Land
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/doc-world/episode/ganden-a-joyful-land-wfsd3l/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:50:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T13:12:14.000Z
- Description: The last generation of monks to have studied where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Doc World, Season 6, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_0c0de3eb-08b1-4558-a998-2fd6fdc49ff4, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_9465c414-dfa5-4739-85b0-2b204758369e, #v1.16

Likened by Buddhists to the Vatican City, Ganden is considered the most influential monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. Monks lived in the monastery for more than 500 years before a brutal invasion drove them to India. GANDEN: A JOYFUL LAND is a look at the lives and remembrances of the remaining generation of monks to have studied at the monastery in Tibet where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.