Gyuto Order

The Gyuto Tantric University is a major monastic institution of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism, founded in 1475 by Jetsun Kunga Dhondup as one of the primary tantric colleges where monks who had completed their geshe studies deepened their training in vajrayana practice. Originally based in Lhasa, Tibet, the monastery housed roughly 1,000 monks before the Chinese invasion of 1950, and after the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959, around 60 Gyuto monks fled to India, settling first in Dalhousie before the institution was re-established in Tenzing Gang, Arunachal Pradesh, and later relocated to Sidhbari near Dharamsala, where it now operates with nearly 500 monks. The order has become internationally known for its distinctive tradition of overtone singing, or chordal chanting, said to have been transmitted by its founder, which reached Western audiences through recordings released in 1974 and by Windham Hill Records in 1986. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/