Yarlung Sheldrak
Yarlung Sheldrak is a Buddhist temple in Shannan, Tibet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: monastery in Zêtang, Nêdong, Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Sheldrak”, “Sheldrak Labrang Ütse”, “Xizha Gongba”, and “Xizha si”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tsethang and Changzhug.
Tsethang
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Tsetang or Zedang, is the fourth largest city in Tibet and is located in the Yarlung Valley, 183 km southeast of Lhasa in Nedong District of the Shannan Prefecture in the Tibet region of China.
Yarlung Sheldrak
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.21684° or 29° 13′ 1″ northLongitude
91.7013° or 91° 42′ 5″ eastOpen location code
7MXH6P82+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 13158860716OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q108033498
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Yarlung Sheldrak” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “西扎寺”
- Tibetan: “བསམ་འགྲུབ་གནས་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “ཤེལ་བྲག”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include bus and Martyrs‘ Cemetery.
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