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 around 3,700 metres (12,150 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

Discover Drepung Monastery and Norbulingka.
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Buddhist temple
, located at the foot of Mount…
1 km northwest of Nechung
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Park
is a palace and surrounding park in , built from 1755.
4 km southeast of Nechung
Cemetery
Lhasa Martyrs' Mausoleum, or Lhasa Martyrs' Cemetery…
2½ km south of Nechung

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Xoi Parish and Donggar Subdistrict.
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Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , .
6 km east of Nechung
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Suburb
Donggar is a subdistrict in Doilungdêqên District…
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.
နီချန့်ကျောင်းတော်Burmese
naiqiong siChinese
naiqiong zhayanglinChinese
乃京寺Chinese
乃琼寺Chinese
乃穷扎央林Chinese
涅沖寺Chinese
NäčhungCzech
NechungDutch
نيتشونجEgyptian Arabic
NechungFrench
Nechung-KlosterGerman
NecsungHungarian
Oracolo NechungItalian
ネチュン寺Japanese
NeczungPolish
Monasterio de NechungSpanish
gnas chung dgon paTibetan
gnas chung grwa tshangTibetan
gnas chung rdo rje sgra dbyangs glingTibetan
gnas-chung lcogTibetan
Naiqung GönbaTibetan
Naiqung JogTibetan
rdo rjesgra dbyangs glingTibetan
གནས་ཆུངTibetan
གནས་ཆུང་གྲཱ་ཚངTibetan
གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།Tibetan
གནས་ཆུང་དགོན།Tibetan
གནས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་གླིང་།Tibetan
གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོགTibetan

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