Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is an historically and culturally important monastery in , the second-largest city in . Founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, it is the traditional monastic seat of the Panchen Lama.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: building in Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Tashilhunpo Monastery”, “zhaxi lunbu si”, “Zhaxilhunbu Monastery”, and “吉祥须弥寺”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shigatsé Mosque and Shigatse Dzong.

Mosque
The Shigatse Mosque is a located in , City, in the of . is situated 710 metres northeast of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

Castle
Photo: Daugilas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as Samdruptse Dzong, is located in , , China. It is spelt Rikaze Dzong. was originally built by Karma Phuntsok Namgyal, the second in the line of the Nyak family who ruled Tibet from 1565 to 1642, after which the capital was moved to . is situated 1¼ km northeast of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

Power station
The is a solar power plant located 3 km northwest of , the second largest city in , . It was connected to the grid in July 2011. is situated 4 km north of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chengnan and Chengbei.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Samzhubzê District, , in the of China. At the time of the 2010 census, the subdistrict had a population of 50,857 and an area of 90 square kilometres.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of City, , . At the time of the 2010 census, the subdistrict had a population of 13,110 and an area of 70 square kilometres as of 2010. is situated 2½ km north of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

Photo: Dcpeets, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially spelled Xigazê, is the second largest city in the Autonomous Region of . It is 3,800 meters above sea level.

Tashi Lhunpo Monastery

Latitude
29.26832° or 29° 16′ 6″ north
Longitude
88.87003° or 88° 52′ 12″ east
Elevation
3,875 metres (12,713 feet)
Open location code
7MXC7V9C+82
Open­Street­Map ID
way 140501939
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Geo­Names ID
8556333
Wiki­data ID
Q877445
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Tashi Lhunpo Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tempulli Zashilunbu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taşilunpo”
  • Bulgarian: “Ташилунпо”
  • Chinese: “扎什伦布”
  • Chinese: “扎什伦布寺”
  • Chinese: “扎什倫布寺”
  • Chinese: “扎西伦布寺”
  • Chinese: “札什倫布寺”
  • Czech: “Klášter Tašilhunpo”
  • Czech: “Klášter Tašilhünpo”
  • Czech: “Tašilhunpo”
  • Czech: “Tašilhünpo”
  • Dutch: “Tashilhunpo”
  • Dutch: “Tashilunpo”
  • Dutch: “Zhaxilhunbo”
  • Dutch: “Zhaxilhünbo”
  • Estonian: “Bkra shis lhun po”
  • Estonian: “Tashilhuempo”
  • Estonian: “Tashilhümpo”
  • Estonian: “Tashilhunpo klooster”
  • Estonian: “Tashilhunpo”
  • Estonian: “Tašilhunpo”
  • Estonian: “Tašilhünpo”
  • Estonian: “Zhaxilhuenbo”
  • Estonian: “Zhaxilhunbo”
  • Estonian: “Zhaxilhünbo”
  • French: “Tashi Lhunpo”
  • French: “Tashilhunpo”
  • German: “Tashilhümpo”
  • German: “Tashilhunpo”
  • German: “Tashilhünpo”
  • German: “Trashilhünpo-Kloster”
  • German: “Trashilhünpo”
  • German: “Zhashilunbu Si”
  • German: “Zhāshílúnbù Sì”
  • German: “Zhaxilhünbo”
  • Hungarian: “Tasilhumpo kolostor”
  • Italian: “Tashilhunpo”
  • Japanese: “タシルンポ寺”
  • Korean: “짜시륀뽀 사원”
  • Korean: “타쉬룬포 사원”
  • Mongolian: “Дашлхүнбү хийд”
  • Mongolian: “Дашлхүнбэ хийд”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zhaxilhünbo”
  • Norwegian: “Trashilhünpo”
  • Polish: “Tashilunpo”
  • Polish: “Taszilhunpo”
  • Polish: “Taszilunpo”
  • Russian: “Ташилумпо”
  • Russian: “Ташилунпо”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Tašilhunpo”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Tashilhunpo”
  • Spanish: “Tashilhunpo”
  • Swedish: “construction”
  • Swedish: “Tashilhünpo”
  • Swedish: “Tashilumpo”
  • Swedish: “Tashilunpo”
  • Swedish: “Trashi lümpo”
  • Swedish: “Trashilhümpo”
  • Swedish: “Trashilhünpo”
  • Swedish: “Trashilünpo”
  • Tagalog: “Monasteryo ng Tashilhunpo”
  • Tagalog: “Monasteryong Tashilhunpo”
  • Tagalog: “Tashilhunpo Monastery”
  • Tagalog: “Tashilhunpo Temple”
  • Tagalog: “Tashilhunpo”
  • Tagalog: “Templo ng Tashilhunpo”
  • Tagalog: “Templong Tashilhunpo”
  • Thai: “วัดจาซีลวินโป”
  • Tibetan: “bkra shis lhun po dgon pa”
  • Tibetan: “gtsang bkra shis lhun po dpal gyi sde chen”
  • Tibetan: “phyogs thams cad las rnam par rgyal ba’i gling”
  • Tibetan: “གཙང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་དཔལ་གྱི་སྡེ་ཆེན་ཕྱོགས་ཐམས་ཅད་ལས་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ”
  • Ukrainian: “Ташілунпо”
  • Welsh: “Tashilhunpo”

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