SW China
Sichuan
Ganzi

Palpung Monastery

Palpung Monastery is Tai Situ's historic monastic seat in , . Palpung means "glorious union of study and practice". It originated in the 12th century and wielded considerable religious, political, and economic influence over the centuries.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: temple in Dêgê County, Garzê, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “babang si”, “Babang Temple”, “Belpung Monastery”, “Palpung Gompa”, “Pelpung”, “Pelpung Chökhor Ling”, “Pelpung Gön”, “八帮寺”, and “聖教法輪寺”

Places in the Area

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Town
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Babang is a rural township in , , , . The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu river in the western reaches of the on the east side of the .

Palpung Monastery

Latitude
31.6487° or 31° 38′ 55″ north
Longitude
98.7958° or 98° 47′ 45″ east
Open location code
8M3WJQXW+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3310984851
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q2068342
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In Other Languages

From Bashkir to Tibetan—“Palpung Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Bashkir: “Палпунг”
  • Burmese: “Palpung Monastery”
  • Chinese: “bābāng sì”
  • Chinese: “八蚌寺”
  • Chinese: “八邦寺”
  • Chinese: “巴蚌寺”
  • Dutch: “Palpung”
  • French: “Monastère de Palpung”
  • French: “Palpung”
  • French: “Shérab Ling”
  • German: “Babang Shengjiao Falun si”
  • German: “Babang si”
  • German: “Palpung”
  • German: “Pelpung Gönpa”
  • German: “Pelpung Tubden Chokhorling”
  • German: “Pelpung-Kloster”
  • German: “Pelpung”
  • Indonesian: “Vihara palpung”
  • Indonesian: “Vihara Palpung”
  • Japanese: “パポンカ寺”
  • Japanese: “ペルプン寺”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palpungklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Palpungklosteret”
  • Russian: “Палпунг”
  • Swedish: “Palpungklostret”
  • Tibetan: “དཔལ་སྤུང་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “དཔལ་སྤུངས་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “སྡེ་དགེ་དཔལ་སྤུངས་དགོན་པ།”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palpung Monastery”. Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.