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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: building in Benchen Monastery, China
- Also known as: “Banchen Gon Puntsok Dargyeling”, “Benchen”, and “bianqin si”
Benchen Monastery
- Categories: monastery, Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.84463° or 32° 50′ 41″ northLongitude
97.14672° or 97° 8′ 48″ eastOpen location code
8M4VR4VW+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3299951149OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q816722
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Benchen Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “biānqīn sì”
- Chinese: “班庆寺”
- Chinese: “边钦寺”
- French: “Monastere de Benchen”
- French: “monastère de Benchen”
- French: “Monastère de benchen”
- French: “Monastère de Benchen”
- French: “Monastère De Benchen”
- German: “Banqing si”
- German: “Benchen Gompa”
- German: “Benchen Gön”
- German: “Benchen Phüntshog Dargye Ling”
- German: “Benchen Phüntshog Dargyeling”
- German: “Benchen Phuntsog Dargyeling”
- German: “Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling”
- German: “Benchen Phuntsok Ling”
- German: “Benchen Puntsok Dargyeling”
- German: “Benchen-Kloster”
- German: “Bianqin si”
- German: “Panchen-Kloster”
- German: “Penchen Gompa”
- German: “Penchen Gön”
- German: “Penchen-Kloster”
- Russian: “Бенчен, школы Карма Кагью”
- Tibetan: “བན་ཆེན་དགོན།”
- Tibetan: “སྒ་བན་ཆེན་དགོན།”
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