Nechung

Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa or Nechung Chok, is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. It is also referred to as Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar, the "Demon Fortress of the Oracle King." It is about 10-minute walk down from Drepung Monastery, and was the residence of the three-headed, six-armed Pehar Gyalpo, the chief protector of the Gelugs and the seat of the State Oracle or Nechung Oracle.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist temple
  • …lies at an elevation of 3,702 metres (12,146 feet)
  • Description: monastery in Lhasa, Tıbet, China
  • Also known as
    “Naijing Si”
    “naiqiong si”
    “Naiqung Chacang”
    “Nechung Chok”
    “Nechung Gompa”
    “Nechung Monastery”
    “Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar”
    “གནས་ཆུང་དགོན། 乃琼寺”
    “乃琼贡巴”
    “乃穷寺”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Drepung Monastery and Norbulingka.

Buddhist temple
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, located at the foot of Mount… is situated 1 km northwest of Nechung.

Park
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is a palace and surrounding park in , built from 1755. is situated 4 km southeast of Nechung.

Cemetery
Lhasa Martyrs' Mausoleum, or Lhasa Martyrs' Cemetery… is situated 2½ km south of Nechung.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhol Village and Donggar Subdistrict.

Neighborhood
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, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . is situated 6 km east of Nechung.

Suburb
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Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District… is situated 6 km west of Nechung.

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is the capital of the autonomous region in .

Nechung

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Latitude
29.6714° or 29° 40′ 17″ north
Longitude
91.05601° or 91° 3′ 22″ east
Open location code
7MXHM3C4+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 259879213
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Geo­Names ID
6612063
Wiki­data ID
Q1773919

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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Tibetan—“Nechung” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “နီချန့်ကျောင်းတော်”
  • Chinese: “naiqiong si”
  • Chinese: “naiqiong zhayanglin”
  • Chinese: “乃京寺”
  • Chinese: “乃琼寺”
  • Chinese: “乃穷扎央林”
  • Chinese: “涅沖寺”
  • Czech: “Näčhung”
  • Dutch: “Nechung”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيتشونج”
  • French: “Nechung”
  • German: “Nechung-Kloster”
  • Hungarian: “Necsung”
  • Italian: “Oracolo Nechung”
  • Japanese: “ネチュン寺”
  • Polish: “Neczung”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Nechung”
  • Tibetan: “gnas chung dgon pa”
  • Tibetan: “gnas chung grwa tshang”
  • Tibetan: “gnas chung rdo rje sgra dbyangs gling”
  • Tibetan: “gnas-chung lcog”
  • Tibetan: “Naiqung Gönba”
  • Tibetan: “Naiqung Jog”
  • Tibetan: “rdo rjesgra dbyangs gling”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང་གྲཱ་ཚང”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག”
  • Tibetan: “གནས་ཆུང”

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