Tsurphu Monastery

Tsurphu Monastery or Tölung Tsurphu is a gompa which serves as the traditional seat of the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
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  • Buddhist temple
  • …lies at an elevation of 4,500 metres (14,764 feet)
  • Description: building in Doilungdêqên District, China
  • Also known as
    “Chubu Si”
    “Cubu Si”
    “Tsurbu gönpa”
    “Tsurphu”
    “མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན (楚布寺)”
    “མཚུར་མདོ་བོ་ལུང་གི་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང”
    “འོག་མིན་མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན”
    “སྟོད་ལུང་མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན”

Tsurphu Monastery

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Latitude
29.72677° or 29° 43′ 36″ north
Longitude
90.57539° or 90° 34′ 31″ east
Open location code
7MXGPHGG+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2869525351
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Geo­Names ID
10273909
Wiki­data ID
Q927302

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Tsurphu Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “chubu si”
  • Chinese: “zupu si”
  • Chinese: “楚布寺”
  • Chinese: “祖普寺”
  • Dutch: “Tsurbu gönpa”
  • Dutch: “Tsurpu”
  • French: “Chubu si”
  • French: “chǔbù sì”
  • French: “monastère de Tsourphou”
  • French: “Monastère de Tsourphou”
  • French: “Monastère de Tsurbu”
  • French: “Tsourphou”
  • French: “Tsurbu gönpa”
  • French: “Tsurphu de Tölong”
  • German: “Tshurphu-Kloster”
  • German: “Tsurbu gönpa”
  • Hungarian: “Curphu kolostor”
  • Japanese: “ツルプ寺”
  • Polish: “Tsurphu”
  • Russian: “Цурпху”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Tsurpu”
  • Spanish: “Tsurbu gönpa”
  • Tibetan: “‘og min mtshur phu dgon”
  • Tibetan: “mtshur mdo bo lung dgon”
  • Tibetan: “mtshur mdo bo lung gi gtsug lag khang”
  • Tibetan: “mtshur phu dgon”
  • Tibetan: “Okmin Tsurpu”
  • Tibetan: “stod lung mtshur phu dgon”
  • Tibetan: “མཚུར་བུ་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “སྟོད་ལུང་མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན།”

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