Drigung Monastery

Drigung Thil Monastery is a monastery in , Lhasa, Tibet founded in 1179. Traditionally it has been the main seat of the Drikung Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: monastery in Lhasa, Tibet
  • Also known as: “zhigongti si”, “མཐིལ་དགོན་པ”, and “འབྲི་གུང་མཐིལ་དགོན་པ”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mamba Township.

Town
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Mamba is a small town and township-level division in in in the of . Administratively it is divided into six village-level divisional units, and the township covers an area of 822 square kilometres, with a population of about 2,900.

Drigung Monastery

Latitude
30.10658° or 30° 6′ 24″ north
Longitude
92.20392° or 92° 12′ 14″ east
Open location code
8M2J4643+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3166301766
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q1259005
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Drigung Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “直贡梯寺”
  • Danish: “Drigungklosteret”
  • Dutch: “Drigung (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Drigung”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دير دريجونج”
  • French: “monastère de Drigung Til”
  • French: “Monastère de Drigung Til”
  • German: “Brigungthil”
  • German: “Digung”
  • German: “Drigung Thil”
  • German: “Drigung-Kloster”
  • German: “Drikung Thil”
  • German: “Zhigong si”
  • German: “Zhigong Ti si”
  • German: “Zhigungtil”
  • Indonesian: “Vihara drigung”
  • Indonesian: “Vihara Drigung”
  • Indonesian: “Wihara Drigung”
  • Japanese: “ディグンティ寺”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drigung-klosteret”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Drigungklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Drigungklosteret”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Drigung”
  • Tibetan: “མཐིལ་དགོན་པ།”
  • Tibetan: “འབྲི་གུང་དགོན།”

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