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.
Moszczynski, Public domain.- Buddhist temple
- …lies at an elevation of 4,050 metres (13,287 feet)
- Description: building in Sa’gya county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Sa-chia”“Sa-chia-tsung”“Sa’gya Temple”“Sa’gyaxoi”“Sajia”“sajia si”“Sakya Gomba”“Sakya Gömpa”“Sakya Monastery”“Sayka Gompa”
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Latitude
28.9054° or 28° 54′ 20″ north
Longitude
88.0179° or 88° 1′ 5″ east
Open location code
7MWCW249+55
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OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = place_of_worship
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tibetan—“Sakya” goes by many names.
دير ساكياArabic
ՍակյաArmenian
Սակյա (վանք)Armenian
စကြာကျောင်းတော်Burmese
Monestir de SakyaCatalan
萨迦Chinese
萨迦寺Chinese
薩迦寺Chinese
Klášter SakjaCzech
SakjaCzech
Pel SakyaDutch
SakyaDutch
Sakya (klooster)Dutch
دير ساكياEgyptian Arabic
Szakja kolostorHungarian
Monastero di SakyaItalian
サキャ寺Japanese
Сажа хийдMongolian
SakyaklosteretNorwegian
SakyaklosteretNorwegian Bokmål
SakjaPolish
СакьяRussian
Sa’gyaTibetan
ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་ཆེན།Tibetan
ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པTibetan
ས་སྐྱ་དགོན།Tibetan
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