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Riwoche Monastery

Riwoche Monastery, or Riwoche Tsukla Khang Tragyelma is a Taklung Kagyu monastery of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded in 1276 by Sangye On, and is one of the oldest and largest monasteries in eastern Tibet.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: monastery
  • Also known as: “changjima si”, “Chung Riwoche”, and “Riwoche Tsuklakhang Tragyelma”

Riwoche Monastery

Latitude
31.37121° or 31° 22′ 16″ north
Longitude
96.50275° or 96° 30′ 10″ east
Open location code
8M3R9GC3+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4089727257
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q180947
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Riwoche Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “changjima si”
  • Chinese: “Leiwuqi lakang si”
  • Chinese: “Leiwuqi Si”
  • Chinese: “昌吉玛寺”
  • Chinese: “类乌齐寺”
  • Chinese: “类乌齐拉康寺”
  • Dutch: “Riwoche (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Riwoche”
  • French: “monastère de Riwoché”
  • French: “Monastère de Riwoché”
  • German: “Riwoche-Kloster”
  • Tibetan: “dbyi shod dpal gyi ri bo che”
  • Tibetan: “dbyi shod ri bo che”
  • Tibetan: “khams ri bo che”
  • Tibetan: “lha khang khra ‘jigs ma”
  • Tibetan: “ri bo che dgon pa”
  • Tibetan: “stag lung mar thang ri bo che”
  • Tibetan: “ཁམས་རི་བོ་ཆེ།”
  • Tibetan: “རི་བོ་ཆེ་དགོན་པ།”
  • Tibetan: “རི་བོ་ཆེ་དགོན།”

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