Benchen Monastery
Benchen Monastery is the name of two Buddhist temples. The original Benchen Monastery in Tibet was destroyed by the Chinese Army in 1959. It later began to be reconstructed by the surviving sangha in the 1980s.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Tibetan Buddhist temple
- Description: building in Benchen Monastery, China
- Also known as“Banchen Gon Puntsok Dargyeling”“Benchen”“bianqin si”
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Latitude
32.84463° or 32° 50′ 41″ north
Longitude
97.14672° or 97° 8′ 48″ east
Open location code
8M4VR4VW+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination = tibetan
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Benchen Monastery” goes by many names.
biānqīn sìChinese
班庆寺Chinese
边钦寺Chinese
Бенчен, школы Карма КагьюRussian
བན་ཆེན་དགོན།Tibetan
སྒ་བན་ཆེན་དགོན།Tibetan
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