Samye Sangha #2
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5917
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2006 — Samye Sangha #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
The official tartan of "Samye Sangha", the monks and nuns of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Monastery in Eskdalemuir, South West Scotland. Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, originally from Tibet, now directs traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice for Sangha and lay people at Samye Ling. He designed this simple, dignified red check tartan to line the robes of his monks and nuns and calls it "Lama Yeshe's tartan for his western Sangha". He says "we are fortunate to be established as part of the Scottish community and wanted a tartan for our Sangha to show how much appreciation we have for the people, culture and tradition of Scotland".%0d - 01/03/2007 — Samye Sangha (register-of-tartans, record)
The official tartan of 'Samye Sangha', the monks and nuns of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Monastery in Eskdalemuir, South West Scotland. Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, originally from Tibet, now directs traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice for Sangha and lay people at Samye Ling. He designed this simple, dignified red check tartan to line the robes of his monks and nuns and calls it 'Lama Yeshe's tartan for his western Sangha'. He says 'we are fortunate to be established as part of the Scottish community and wanted a tartan for our Sangha to show how much appreciation we have for the people, culture and tradition of Scotland'. - March 2007 — Samye Sangha (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Notes from STWR: The official tartan of "Samye Sangha", the monks and nuns of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Monastery in Eskdalemuir, South West Scotland. Abbot Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, originally from Tibet, now directs traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice for Sangha and lay people at Samye Ling. He designed this simple, dignified red check tartan to line the robes of his monks and nuns and calls it "Lama Yeshe's tartan for his western Sangha". He says "we are fortunate to be established as part of the Scottish community and wanted a tartan for our Sangha to show how much appreciation we have for the people, culture and tradition of Scotland".
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 01/07/2006 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5917
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7129
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3170
Thread count
DR/64 R6 DR6 R4 DR6 R/46
One full sett is 154 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s6/dr32r3dr3r2dr3r23~x2/