Rongbuk Monastery
Rongbuk Monastery, also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Shigatse, China
- Also known as: “rongbu si”, “Rongbu Si”, “Rongphu Monastery”, “Rongphuk Monastery”, and “Rongpu Monastery”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qomolangma.
Qomolangma
Photo: 29cm, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Qomolangma National Nature Reserve is in Tibet, covering the Tibetan or Chinese side of Mount Everest.
Rongbuk Monastery
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.19519° or 28° 11′ 43″ northLongitude
86.82814° or 86° 49′ 41″ eastElevation
5,047 metres (16,558 feet)Open location code
7MW85RWH+37OpenStreetMap ID
way 405830888OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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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-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”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rongbuk manastir”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de Rongbuk”
- Tibetan: “Rongpu Si”
- Tibetan: “རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན།”
- Tibetan: “རོང་ཕུ་དགོན།”
- Turkish: “Rongbuk Manastırı”
- Ukrainian: “Ронгбук”
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