Rongbuk Monastery

Rongbuk Monastery, also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, , in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Buddhist monastery in Tingri county Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “rongbu si”, “Rongbu Si”, “Rongphu Monastery”, “Rongphuk Monastery”, “Rongpu Goinba”, “Rongpu Monastery”, “Rongpu Si”, and “扎绒朵阿曲林寺”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qomolangma.

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National Nature Reserve is in , covering the Tibetan or Chinese side of .

Rongbuk Monastery

Latitude
28.19518° or 28° 11′ 43″ north
Longitude
86.82818° or 86° 49′ 41″ east
Elevation
5,047 metres (16,558 feet)
Open location code
7MW85RWH+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13840969183
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Geo­Names ID
1280131
Wiki­data ID
Q785488
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Rongbuk Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Ronqbuk monastırı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ronqbuk Monastrı”
  • Bosnian: “Rongbuk manastir”
  • Bosnian: “Rongbuk”
  • Catalan: “Monestir de Rongbuk”
  • Chinese: “拉堆查绒布冬阿曲林寺”
  • Chinese: “绒布寺”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دير رونجبوك”
  • French: “monastère de Rongbuk”
  • French: “Monastère de Rongbuk”
  • German: “Rongpu Goinba”
  • German: “Rongpu-Kloster”
  • Japanese: “ロングック僧院”
  • Japanese: “ロンブク寺”
  • Malayalam: “റോങ്ബക് ബുദ്ധവിഹാരം”
  • Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Rongbuk”
  • Romanian: “Mănăstirea Rongbuk”
  • Russian: “Ронгбук-Гомпа”
  • Russian: “Ронгбук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rongbuk manastir”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Rongbuk”
  • Tibetan: “Rongpu Si”
  • Tibetan: “མདོ་སྔགས་ཟུང་འཇུག་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་པ”
  • Tibetan: “རོང་ཕུ་དགོན།”
  • Turkish: “Rongbuk Manastırı”
  • Ukrainian: “Ронгбук”

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