Labrang Monastery
Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Lama Tsongkhapa. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling.- Type: Locality with 23,000 residents
- Description: monastery in Xiahe County, Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Hsia-ho”, “Hsia-ho-hsien”, “La-pu-leng”, “Labran”, “Labrang Si”, “Labuleng”, “Labuleng Zhen”, “lapuleng si”, “Lapulengsze”, “Lhabrang Monastery”, “Lorang Trashikhyil”, “Syakhe”, “Te-wu-lu”, “Te-wu-lu-shih”, “Xiahe”, “Xiahe Xian”, “夏河县”, “拉卜楞”, and “拉卜楞镇”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xiahe and Labrang.
Xiahe
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Xiahe County is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name, which literally means "Xia River", refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county.
Labrang Monastery
- Category: Tibetan Buddhist monastery
- Location: Gannan, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Tibetan—“Labrang Monastery” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Labrang monasterioa”
- Chinese: “拉卜楞寺”
- Dutch: “Labrang (klooster)”
- Dutch: “Labrang Trashi Khyil”
- Dutch: “Labrang”
- French: “Labrang”
- French: “monastère de Labrang”
- French: “Monastère de Labrang”
- German: “Kloster Labrang”
- German: “Labrang Tashi Khyil”
- German: “Labrang Tashikyil”
- German: “Labrang Trashikhyil”
- German: “Labrang-Kloster”
- German: “Labrang”
- German: “Labuleng si”
- Hebrew: “מנזר לאבראנג”
- Hungarian: “Labrang kolostor”
- Italian: “monastero di Labrang”
- Italian: “Monastero di Labrang”
- Japanese: “ラプラン・タシーキル寺”
- Japanese: “ラブラン寺”
- Japanese: “ラプラン寺”
- Korean: “라브랑 사원”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Labrang”
- Norwegian: “Labrang”
- Polish: “Labrang (klasztor)”
- Polish: “Labrang”
- Russian: “Лабранг”
- Swedish: “Labrang”
- Swedish: “Labrangklostret”
- Thai: “อารามลาชัง”
- Tibetan: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ།”
- Tibetan: “བླ་བྲང་དགོན།”
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