Ngor
Ngor or Ngor Éwam Chöden is the name of a monastery in the Ü-Tsang province of Tibet about 20 kilometres southwest of Shigatse and is the Sakya school's second most important gompa.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: destroyed Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “e-er si”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qugboxung Township.
Qugboxung Township
Town
Qugboxung is a village and township of the Samzhubzê District, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. At the time of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 5,428 and an area of 310 square kilometres.As of 2013, it had 15 villages under its administration. Qugboxung Township is situated 9 km northeast of Ngor.
Ngor
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.11947° or 29° 7′ 10″ northLongitude
88.82579° or 88° 49′ 33″ eastOpen location code
7MXC4R9G+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 8326296911OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q1984279
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Tibetan—“Ngor” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ঙ্গোর-এ-বাম-ছোস-ল্দান বৌদ্ধবিহার”
- Chinese: “俄尔寺”
- Chinese: “艾旺却丹寺”
- Dutch: “Ngor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نجور”
- French: “monastère de Ngor Éwam Chöden”
- French: “Monastère de Ngor Éwam Chöden”
- German: “E si”
- German: “Evam-Chöden-Kloster”
- German: “Ngor Evam Chöde”
- German: “Ngor Evam Chöden”
- German: “Ngor Ewam Chöde”
- German: “Ngor Ewam Chöden”
- German: “Ngor-Kloster”
- Hungarian: “Ngor kolostor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngor (kloster)”
- Norwegian: “Ngor”
- Tibetan: “ངོར་དགོན་པ།”
- Tibetan: “ཨེ་ཝཾ་ཆོས་ལྡན།”
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