Sakya
Sakya Monastery, also known as Pel Sakya, is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town, Sa'gya County, about 127 kilometres west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The monastery is considered the seat of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Photo: Moszczynski, Public domain.- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: building in Sa’gya county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Pel Sakya”, “Sa-chia”, “Sa-chia-tsung”, “Sa’gya Temple”, “Sa’gyaxoi”, “Sagya-Kloster”, “Sajia”, “sajia si”, “Sajia si”, “Sakya (klooster)”, “Sakya Gomba”, “Sakya Gompa”, “Sakya Gömpa”, “Sakya Monastery”, “Sayka Gompa”, “ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་ཆེན།”, and “ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ”
Sakya
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, cultural heritage of China, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.9054° or 28° 54′ 20″ north
Longitude
88.0179° or 88° 1′ 5″ east
Elevation
4,643 metres (15,233 feet)
Open location code
7MWCW249+55
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tibetan—“Sakya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير ساكيا”
- Armenian: “Սակյա (վանք)”
- Armenian: “Սակյա”
- Burmese: “စကြာကျောင်းတော်”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Sakya”
- Chinese: “萨迦”
- Chinese: “萨迦寺”
- Chinese: “薩迦寺”
- Czech: “Klášter Sakja”
- Dutch: “Sakya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير ساكيا”
- French: “monastère de Sakya”
- French: “Monastère de Sakya”
- German: “Sa’gya”
- German: “Sakya-Kloster”
- Hungarian: “Szakja kolostor”
- Italian: “Monastero di Sakya”
- Japanese: “サキャ寺”
- Mongolian: “Сажа хийд”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakyaklosteret”
- Norwegian: “Sakyaklosteret”
- Polish: “Sakja”
- Portuguese: “Monastério Sakya”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro Sakya”
- Russian: “Сакья”
- Tibetan: “Sa’gya”
- Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་དགོན།”
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