Tsechen Gompa

Tsechen Monastery was a Tibetan monastery located approximately 5 kilometres northwest of . It was one of the largest of the fortified monasteries constructed in Tibet, and was located above a village also known as Tsechen.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: monastery in Tsechen, Gyantsé county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Tsechen Dzong”, “Tsechen Monastery”, “Tsechen Monastery and Dzong”, “zijin si”, and “བརྩེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྡེ 紫金寺”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gyantse.

Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
, officially Gyangzê Town, is a town located in , Shigatse Prefecture, , China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in , but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.

Tsechen Gompa

Latitude
28.94037° or 28° 56′ 25″ north
Longitude
89.55709° or 89° 33′ 26″ east
Open location code
7MWFWHR4+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14091493116
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q15915057
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Tsechen Gompa” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “紫金寺 (江孜县)”
  • Chinese: “紫金寺”
  • German: “Tsechen Gompa”
  • German: “Zêqên-Kloster”
  • Tibetan: “བརྩེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྡེ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་རབ་རྒྱས་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “བརྩེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྡེ།”

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