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
  • 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.

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

Rongbuk Monastery

Latitude
28.19519° or 28° 11′ 43″ north
Longitude
86.82814° or 86° 49′ 41″ east
Elevation
5,047 metres (16,558 feet)
Open location code
7MW85RWH+37
Open­Street­Map ID
way 405830888
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
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-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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