Nartang Monastery (Tib. sNar thang) was founded in 1153 by Tumton Lodro Drakpa in a village about 260 km west of Shigatse. It was founded as a Kadampa monastery and school and later became a subsidiary of Tashilhunpo Monastery in the 15th century. Nartang was renowned for its printing press, which produced copies of the religious scriptures, the Tenjur and Kanjur, until its destruction in the late 1960s.