Pabonka Hermitage
Pabonka Hermitage, also written Pawangka, is a historical hermitage, today belonging to Sera Monastery, about 8 kilometres northwest of Lhasa in the Nyang bran Valley on the slopes of Mount Parasol in Tibet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: building in Pabonka Hermitage, China
- Also known as: “Pabongka Goinba” and “Pabongkha Hermitage”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chupzang Nunnery and Sera Monastery.
Chupzang Nunnery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0.
Chupzang Nunnery is a historical nunnery, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located north of Lhasa in Tibet, China. Though the site was established as a hermitage around 1665, it was converted into an exclusive nunnery in 1984 and has since grown into one of the largest nunneries in the Lhasa Valley. Chupzang Nunnery is situated 1 km southeast of Pabonka Hermitage.
Sera Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Antoinetav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sera Monastery is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located 1.25 miles north of Lhasa and about 5 km north of the Jokhang. Sera Monastery is situated 3 km southeast of Pabonka Hermitage.
Garu Nunnery
Buddhist temple
Garu Nunnery is a historical hermitage, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located north of Lhasa, Lhasa Prefecture, in the Tibet region of China. The nunnery has an ancient history traced to Padmasambhava, the Indian Buddhist preceptor, who visited this location. Garu Nunnery is situated 1½ km west of Pabonka Hermitage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nyangrain Subdistrict and Zhol Village.
Nyangrain Subdistrict
Suburb
Nyang bran is a suburb district and valley located several kilometres north of the city of Lhasa, Tibet. The valley is noted for its hermitages, belonging to the Sera Monastery, one of the three great historical monasteries of Tibet. Pabonka Hermitage, Drakri Hermitage, Chupzang Nunnery and many others are located in the valley which offers scenic views of Lhasa.
Zhol Village
Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans. Zhol Village is situated 6 km south of Pabonka Hermitage.
Lhasa
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in China. It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the Himalayas.
Pabonka Hermitage
- Categories: monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.71968° or 29° 43′ 11″ northLongitude
91.11791° or 91° 7′ 5″ eastElevation
3,902 metres (12,802 feet)Open location code
7MXHP499+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 670261456OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Tibetan—“Pabonka Hermitage” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Pabonka”
- Chinese: “帕邦喀”
- Czech: “Pha-bong-kha”
- Czech: “Phabongkha”
- Hungarian: “Pabonka remetelak”
- Polish: “Pabonka”
- Spanish: “Ermita Pabonka”
- Tibetan: “ཕ་བོང་ཁ་དགོན་པ”
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