Mindrolling Monastery

Mindrolling Monastery is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma school in Tibet. It was founded by Rigzin Terdak Lingpa in 1676. Terdak Lingpa's lineage is known as the Nyo lineage.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Buddhist monastery in Chaqi, Zhanang County, Tibetan Autonomous Region, China
  • Also known as: Mindroling Gompa”, “Mindroling Monastery”, “minzhulin si”, and “Minzhulin Si

Mindrolling Monastery

Latitude
29.18381° or 29° 11′ 2″ north
Longitude
91.40554° or 91° 24′ 20″ east
Elevation
3,749 metres (12,300 feet)
Open location code
7MXH5CM4+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4070122335
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Geo­Names ID
10273001
Wiki­data ID
Q1585574
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Ukrainian—“Mindrolling Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: Mindrolling Monastery
  • Chinese: mǐnzhūlín sì
  • Chinese: 敏卓林寺
  • Chinese: 敏珠林
  • Chinese: 敏珠林寺
  • Chinese: 敏竹林寺
  • Dutch: Mindroling
  • Estonian: Mindroling
  • French: Mindroling
  • French: monastère de Mindroling
  • German: Mindröl-Ling-Kloster
  • German: Mindroling
  • German: Mindröling
  • German: Mindrölling-Kloster
  • German: Mindrolling
  • German: Mindrölling
  • German: Mingzhuling-Kloster
  • German: Minzhoiling
  • German: Minzholing
  • German: Minzhulin si
  • German: Minzhulin
  • German: Minzhuling si
  • German: Orgyen Mindroling
  • German: Orgyen Mindrölling
  • German: Orgyen-Mindrölling-Kloster
  • Hungarian: Mindrolling kolostor
  • Japanese: ミンドルリン寺
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mindrolling
  • Norwegian: Mindrolling
  • Russian: Миндролинг
  • Russian: Миндроллинг
  • Tibetan: ‘og min o rgyan smin grol gling
  • Tibetan: min-dröl-ling gön-pa
  • Tibetan: Minzhoiling Si
  • Tibetan: o rgyan smin grol gling
  • Tibetan: smin grol gling
  • Tibetan: smin-grol-gling dgon-pa
  • Tibetan: འོག་མིན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་།
  • Tibetan: སྨོན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན།
  • Ukrainian: Міндролінг
  • Ukrainian: Міндролінґ
  • Ukrainian: Монастир Міндролінґ

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