Kathog Monastery

Kathok Monastery, also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" in of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Tibetan monastery in Baiyü, Garzê, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Gatog”, “Kathog Gompa”, “Kathok Monastery”, “Kathok Monastery, Baiyu”, “Katog Gompa”, “Katok Dorjeden”, and “Katok Monastery”

Kathog Monastery

Latitude
31.31253° or 31° 18′ 45″ north
Longitude
98.94164° or 98° 56′ 30″ east
Open location code
8M3W8W7R+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3298487380
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q1430204
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Tibetan—“Kathog Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “ကတော့ကျောင်းတော်”
  • Chinese: “gátuō sì”
  • Chinese: “嘎拖寺”
  • Chinese: “噶陀寺”
  • Chinese: “白玉嘎托寺”
  • Dutch: “Kathog”
  • Dutch: “Kathok”
  • Dutch: “Katog”
  • Dutch: “Katok”
  • French: “Kathok”
  • German: “Gatuo si”
  • German: “Kathog Dorjeden”
  • German: “Kathog-Kloster”
  • German: “Kathog”
  • German: “Kathok”
  • German: “Katok Dorjeden”
  • Hungarian: “Katok kolostor”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kathok-klosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Kathok-klosteret”
  • Russian: “Катог”
  • Tibetan: “kaH thog”
  • Tibetan: “kaHthog dgon”
  • Tibetan: “kaHthog rdo rje gdan”
  • Tibetan: “Katok Dorjeden”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་ཐོག་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཀཿ་ཐོག”

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