Ga’gyü Goinba
Ga’gyü Goinba is a Buddhist temple in Tibet, Southwest China. Ga’gyü Goinba is situated nearby to the locality Chumbi Valley, as well as near Xiayadong Township.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: monastery in Yadong County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “gaju si”, “Gaju Si”, “Kagyü Gömpa”, “Kagyu Gonsar”, and “yadong gaju si”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chumbi Valley and Xiayadong Township.
Chumbi Valley
Locality
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Chumbi Valley, called Dromo or Tromo in Tibetan, is a valley in the Himalayas that projects southwards from the Tibetan plateau, intervening between Sikkim and Bhutan.
Xiayadong Township
Town
Xiayadong Township, known in Tibetan as Dromo Mechü is a township in the Chumbi Valley in Yadong County, Shigatse, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Rinchengang
Village
Rinchengang or Renqinggang is a town in the Chumbi Valley and the headquarters of the Xia Yadong Township of Yadong County, Tibet region of China. It is in the valley of Amo Chu where the route from Sikkim's Jelep La pass meets Amo Chu.
Ga’gyü Goinba
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.43179° or 27° 25′ 54″ northLongitude
88.91506° or 88° 54′ 54″ eastOpen location code
7MVCCWJ8+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5045843328OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q108038173
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Ga’gyü Goinba” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Gájǔ sì”
- Chinese: “亚东噶举寺”
- Chinese: “噶举寺”
- Tibetan: “གྲོ་མོ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་དགོན།”
- Tibetan: “བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་དགོན།”
- Tibetan: “བཀའ་རྒྱུད་དགོན་པ”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ruins of Yadong Custom and Renchingang border trade market.
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