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.- Tibetan Buddhist temple
- Description: monastery
- Also known as“changjima si”“Chung Riwoche”“Riwoche Tsuklakhang Tragyelma”“རི་བོ་ཆེ་དགོན་པ 类乌齐寺”
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Latitude
31.37121° or 31° 22′ 16″ north
Longitude
96.50275° or 96° 30′ 10″ east
Open location code
8M3R9GC3+F3
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OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination = tibetan
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Riwoche Monastery” goes by many names.
changjima siChinese
Leiwuqi lakang siChinese
Leiwuqi SiChinese
昌吉玛寺Chinese
类乌齐寺Chinese
类乌齐拉康寺Chinese
RiwocheDutch
Riwoche (klooster)Dutch
dbyi shod dpal gyi ri bo cheTibetan
dbyi shod ri bo cheTibetan
khams ri bo cheTibetan
lha khang khra ‘jigs maTibetan
ri bo che dgon paTibetan
stag lung mar thang ri bo cheTibetan
ཁམས་རི་བོ་ཆེ།Tibetan
རི་བོ་ཆེ་དགོན་པ།Tibetan
རི་བོ་ཆེ་དགོན།Tibetan
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