The main monastery of Kathok is located in the Si Chuan Province, White Jade County - Ho Po region (Derge), a pure land where all the people embrace the Teachings of Lord Buddha. The monastery is situated at the middle of the Bai Long Gou (White Dragon Channel) on Do-Nian Mountain.

It was found by the great Nyingma Master Tampa Deshek in Year 1159.

The full name of the monastery is Kathok Dorje Den (Ga Tuo.Duo Ji Dan) named so because the monastery is built on top of a naturally-arisen "Ga" letter on a huge and smooth white-coloured stone.

"Dorje Den" in Tibetan means "Vajra Seat", the holiest place for Buddhists all over the world, the very place where Lord Buddha manifested the Great Enlightenment.

Great Guru Padmasambhava declared that the blessings of Kathok would reign supreme and is equivalent to that of the Vajra Seat in Bodhigaya on which Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment. Guru Rinpoche personally consecrated Kathok Monastery 13 times and prophesied Kathok to be The Supreme Holy Place of the Snowy Lands, The Ultimate Source for the Dissemination of the Vajrayana Teachings of the Great Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal.

The great master Vairocana (see above) stayed at Kathok for a whole month while he was at Gyarong. The first lineage master of Kathok, Tampa Deshe, too, practised at Kathok in a cave known as Tampo.

To the right of Kathok Monastery is a place known as Kunpo. It is regarded as a place of 100,000 Buddhas. At Kunpo, the accomplished master Vairocana constructed a stupa. This stupa is thought to be effective in subduing a demoness. It is considered by ancient geomancy masters to be similar to Tibet's own land-shape. In addition, Kunpo is also the reliquary of many lineage masters.

This incense is from the Kathok Monastery in Tibet.