Siwa Monastery
Siwa Monastery is a Buddhist temple in Aba, Sichuan.- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: monastery in Ngawa county, Ngawa, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Siwa si” and “Suwa Gön”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aba.
Aba
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Ngawa or Aba town is the seat of Ngawa County, within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres.
Siwa Monastery
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.99256° or 32° 59′ 33″ northLongitude
101.68615° or 101° 41′ 10″ eastOpen location code
8P43XMVP+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 11331171397OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q108030664
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Siwa Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “四哇寺”
- Chinese: “四洼寺”
- Tibetan: “བསུ་བ་དགོན།”
- Tibetan: “མསུ་བ་དགའ་ལྡན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཆོས་གླིང་།”
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