SW China
Tibet
Lhasa

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 minutes 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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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: monastery in Lhasa, Tıbet, China
  • Also known as: “Naijing Si”, “naiqiong si”, “Naiqung Chacang”, “Nechung Chok”, “Nechung Gompa”, “Nechung Monastery”, “Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar”, “乃琼贡巴”, and “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 Gephel, is one of the "great three" Gelug monasteries of founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The other two are and . is situated 1 km northwest of Nechung.

Park
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is a palace and surrounding park in , built from 1755. It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959. is situated 4 km southeast of Nechung.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhol Village and Donggar Subdistrict.

Neighborhood
, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans. is situated 6 km east of Nechung.

Suburb
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Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District in the of , northwest of . It lies at an altitude of 3,828 metres. The subdistrict has a population of about 4,000 people with 9,359 people in the township. is situated 6 km west of Nechung.

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is the capital of the autonomous region in . It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the .

Nechung

Latitude
29.67143° or 29° 40′ 17″ north
Longitude
91.05593° or 91° 3′ 21″ east
Elevation
3,702 metres (12,146 feet)
Open location code
7MXHM3C4+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4102980799
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
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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