Drepung Monastery

Drepung Monastery, located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is one of the "great three" Gelug monasteries of . The other two are and .
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  • Tibetan Buddhist temple
  • …lies at an elevation of around 3,840 metres (12,600 feet)
  • Description: Tibet Monastery
  • Also known as
    “Zhaibung”
    “Zhebang Si”
    “འབྲས་སྤུངས་”
    “འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། 哲蚌寺”

Places of Interest Nearby

Discover Nechung and Lhasa Martyrs’ Mausoleum.
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Buddhist temple
Monastery, Gompa or Chok, is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet.
1 km southeast of Drepung Monastery
Cemetery
Lhasa Martyrs' Mausoleum, or Lhasa Martyrs' Cemetery…
3 km southeast of Drepung Monastery

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Donggar Subdistrict and Xoi Parish.
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Suburb
Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District…
5 km southwest of Drepung Monastery
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Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , .
7 km east of Drepung Monastery
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is the capital of the autonomous region in .

Drepung Monastery

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Latitude
29.67678° or 29° 40′ 36″ north
Longitude
91.04693° or 91° 2′ 49″ east
Open location code
7MXHM2GW+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 345009556
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity = place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
historic = yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination = tibetan
Geo­Names ID
6547222
Wiki­data ID
Q241937

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Wu Chinese—“Drepung Monastery” goes by many names.
‘ব্রাস-স্পুংস বৌদ্ধবিহারBengali
哲蚌寺Chinese
DäpungCzech
DrepungDutch
دير دريبونجEgyptian Arabic
DrepungEstonian
DrepungFrench
monastère deFrench
Monastère de DrepungFrench
DrepungGerman
מנזר דרפונגHebrew
Drepung kolostorHungarian
Vihara DrepungIndonesian
DrepungItalian
デプン寺Japanese
드레풍 사원Korean
वब्रस स्पुङस दगोनNewari
DrepungklosteretNorwegian
DrepungklosteretNorwegian Bokmål
DrepungPolish
DrepungPortuguese
mănăstirea DrepungRomanian
БрайбунRussia Buriat
ДрепунгRussian
Samostan DrepungSlovenian
Monasterio de DrepungSpanish
DrepungklostretSwedish
Monasteryo ng DrepungTagalog
วัดแจปุงThai
འབྲས་སྤུངསTibetan
འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན།Tibetan
Дрепунг хүрээзиTuvinian
ДрепунгUkrainian
哲蚌寺Wu Chinese

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