Nupzur
Larung Gar in the Larung Valley is a community in Sêrtar County of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, China, known as Amdo. Larung Gar is the local name for the community of mostly Tibetan and Han Chinese students which grew around the Serta Larung Five Science Buddhist Academy, founded in 1980 by Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok.- Type: Town
- Description: town in Sertar county, Garzê, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Larung”, “Larung Gar”, “Luoruo”, “Luoruo Town”, and “Nubsur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Larung Gar Buddhist Academy.
Larung Gar Buddhist Academy
College
Photo: BODHICITTA, CC BY 2.0.
In 1980, Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok founded Larung Gar, which was officially named by the 10th Panchen Lama in 1987 as Serta Larung Five Science Buddhist Academy, also known of in Tibetan: བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།, ZWPY: Serta Larung Ngarig Nangdän Lobling, located in the Larung Valley near the township of Larung in Sêrtar County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan Province, known of as Kham.
Nupzur
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.13611° or 32° 8′ 10″ northLongitude
100.45405° or 100° 27′ 15″ eastOpen location code
8P424FP3+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 3470720820OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q11146166
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Wu Chinese—“Nupzur” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Larung Gar”
- Catalan: “Luoruo”
- Chinese: “luòruò zhèn”
- Chinese: “洛若乡”
- Chinese: “洛若镇”
- Dutch: “Larung Township”
- Estonian: “Larung Gar”
- French: “canton de Luoruo”
- French: “Larung Gar”
- French: “Luoruo”
- Gan Chinese: “洛若镇”
- German: “Larung Gar”
- German: “Nupzur”
- Greek: “Λαρούγκ Γκαρ”
- Hausa: “Nupzur”
- Italian: “Larung Gar”
- Italian: “Luoruo”
- Japanese: “洛若鄉”
- Lithuanian: “Larung Garas”
- Polish: “Larung Gar”
- Polish: “Luoruo”
- Portuguese: “Larung Gar”
- Portuguese: “Luoruo”
- Russian: “Ларунг-Гар”
- Spanish: “Larung Gar”
- Spanish: “Luoruo”
- Thai: “ลารุงการ์”
- Tibetan: “གནུབས་ཟུར་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Wu Chinese: “洛若镇”
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