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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: building in People’s Republic of China
- Also known as: “Sa-chia”, “Sa-chia-tsung”, “Sa’gya Temple”, “Sa’gyaxoi”, “Sajia”, “sajia si”, “Sakya Gomba”, “Sakya Gömpa”, “Sakya Monastery”, and “Sayka Gompa”
Sakya
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery and cultural heritage of China
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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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”
- Czech: “Sakja”
- Dutch: “Pel Sakya”
- Dutch: “Sakya (klooster)”
- Dutch: “Sakya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير ساكيا”
- French: “monastère de Sakya”
- French: “Monastère de Sakya”
- German: “Sa’gya”
- German: “Sagya-Kloster”
- German: “Sajia si”
- German: “Sakya-Kloster”
- Hungarian: “Szakja kolostor”
- Italian: “Monastero di Sakya”
- Japanese: “サキャ寺”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakyaklosteret”
- Norwegian: “Sakyaklosteret”
- Polish: “Sakja”
- Portuguese: “Monastério Sakya”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro Sakya”
- Russian: “Сакья”
- Tibetan: “Sa’gya”
- Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “ས་སྐྱ་དགོན།”
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