Samye

Samye is a town in , and has an elevation of 3,574 metres. Samye is situated nearby to the village , as well as near the neighborhood .
  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in Zhanang, Shannan, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Samyai”, “Samye Town”, “Sangye”, “Sangye Shequ”, “Sangye Zhen”, and “桑耶社区”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Samye.

Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monastery, full name Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in , during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen.

Samye

Latitude
29.326° or 29° 19′ 34″ north
Longitude
91.5078° or 91° 30′ 28″ east
Elevation
3,574 metres (11,726 feet)
Open location code
7MXH8GG5+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4069673571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8605162
Wiki­data ID
Q11113165
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Samye” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sangye (munisipyo sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Sangye”
  • Chinese: “sāngyē zhèn”
  • Chinese: “桑耶”
  • Chinese: “桑耶镇”
  • French: “bourg de Samye”
  • French: “Bourg de Samye”
  • Gan Chinese: “桑耶镇”
  • German: “Samyai”
  • Russian: “Самьэ”
  • Swedish: “Sangye”
  • Tibetan: “བསམ་ཡས་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
  • Tibetan: “བསམ་ཡས”
  • Turkish: “Samye”
  • Wu Chinese: “桑耶镇”

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