Galden Namgyel Lhatse
Tawang Monastery is a Buddhist monastery located in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India. It is the largest Buddhist monastery in the country. It is situated in the valley of the Tawang Chu, in close proximity to the Chinese and Bhutanese border.
- Buddhist temple
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,740 metres (8,980 feet)
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, India
- Address: Tawang
- Also known as“Gaden Namgyal Lhatse”“Tawang Gompa”“Tawang Monastery”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tawang.
Galden Namgyel Lhatse
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Latitude
27.58661° or 27° 35′ 12″ north
Longitude
91.85739° or 91° 51′ 27″ east
Open location code
7MVHHVP4+JX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Urdu—“Galden Namgyel Lhatse” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “টাৱাং মঠ”
- Bengali: “তাওয়াং মঠ”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Tawang”
- Chinese: “达旺寺”
- Chinese: “達旺寺”
- French: “Monastère de Tawang”
- Fulah: “Tawang Monastery”
- Hindi: “तवांग मठ”
- Kannada: “ತವಾಂಗ್ ಆಶ್ರಮ”
- Kannada: “ತವಾಂಗ್ ಮೊನ್ಯಾಸ್ಟರಿ”
- Korean: “타왕 사원”
- Marathi: “तवांग बौद्ध मठ”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Tawang”
- Romanian: “Mănăstirea Tawang”
- Russian: “Таванг-гомпа”
- Russian: “Таванг”
- Sanskrit: “तवांग मठः”
- Tamil: “தவாங் மடாலயம்”
- Telugu: “తవాంగ్ బౌద్ధ విహారం”
- Tibetan: “དགའ་ལྡན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ལྷ་རྩེ།”
- Tibetan: “རྟ་དབང་དགོན་པ།”
- Urdu: “توانگ خانقاہ”
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