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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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Tibet Monastery
  • Also known as: “Zhaibung”, “Zhebang si”, “Zhebang Si”, “འབྲས་སྤུངས་”, and “འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། 哲蚌寺”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Nechung and Lhasa Martyrs’ Mausoleum.

Buddhist temple
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Monastery, Gompa or Chok, is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. is situated 1 km southeast of Drepung Monastery.

Cemetery
Lhasa Martyrs' Mausoleum, or Lhasa Martyrs' Cemetery… is situated 3 km southeast of Drepung Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Donggar Subdistrict and Zhol Village.

Suburb
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Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District… is situated 5 km southwest of Drepung Monastery.

Neighborhood
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, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . is situated 7 km east of Drepung Monastery.

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is the capital of the autonomous region in .

Drepung Monastery

Latitude
29.67678° or 29° 40′ 36″ north
Longitude
91.04693° or 91° 2′ 49″ east
Elevation
3,842 metres (12,605 feet)
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.
  • Bengali: “‘ব্রাস-স্পুংস বৌদ্ধবিহার”
  • Bengali: “’ব্রাস-স্পুংস বৌদ্ধবিহার”
  • Chinese: “哲蚌寺”
  • Czech: “Däpung”
  • Dutch: “Drepung”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دير دريبونج”
  • Estonian: “Drepung”
  • French: “Monastère de Drepung”
  • French: “monastère de Drépung”
  • French: “monastère de”
  • German: “Drepung”
  • Hebrew: “מנזר דרפונג”
  • Hungarian: “Drepung kolostor”
  • Indonesian: “Vihara Drepung”
  • Italian: “Drepung”
  • Japanese: “デプン寺”
  • Korean: “드레풍 사원”
  • Newari: “वब्रस स्पुङस दगोन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drepungklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Drepungklosteret”
  • Polish: “Drepung”
  • Portuguese: “Drepung”
  • Romanian: “mănăstirea Drepung”
  • Russia Buriat: “Брайбун”
  • Russian: “Дрепунг”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Drepung”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Drepung”
  • Swedish: “Drepungklostret”
  • Tagalog: “Monasteryo ng Drepung”
  • Thai: “วัดแจปุง”
  • Tibetan: “འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “འབྲས་སྤུངས”
  • Tuvinian: “Дрепунг хүрээзи”
  • Ukrainian: “Дрепунг”
  • Wu Chinese: “哲蚌寺”

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