Samye
Samye Monastery, full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Detsen.
- Tibetan Buddhist temple
- …lies at an elevation of around 3,580 metres (11,730 feet)
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Samye, Zhanang, Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Samye Gompa”“Samye Monastery”“Sangye Si”“Shamoye Monastery”
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Latitude
29.3266° or 29° 19′ 36″ north
Longitude
91.5024° or 91° 30′ 9″ east
Open location code
7MXH8GG2+MX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse = religious
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination = tibetan
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Samye” goes by many names.
Samyeko monasterioaBasque
Сам’еBelarusian
ব্সাম-য়াস বৌদ্ধবিহারBengali
Саме ГомпаBulgarian
СамйеBulgarian
Самйе ГомпаBulgarian
ဆမ်ရီBurmese
桑耶寺Chinese
Klášter SamjäCzech
SamjäCzech
SamyeDutch
Samye GompaDutch
SamyelingDutch
سامىEgyptian Arabic
معبد سامىEgyptian Arabic
SamjeEstonian
Samje kloosterEstonian
SamyeEstonian
Samye kloosterEstonian
Samye-LingEstonian
სამიეGeorgian
סאמיהHebrew
समयेHindi
Szamje kolostorHungarian
SamyeIndonesian
Wihara SamyeIndonesian
Monastero di SamyeItalian
SamyeItalian
サムイェー寺Japanese
サムイェ寺Japanese
サムエー寺Japanese
サムエ寺Japanese
삼예 사원Korean
삼예사Korean
SamyeNorwegian
SamyeNorwegian Bokmål
SamjePolish
СамьеRussian
Samostan SamjeSlovenian
SamyeSwedish
ཆོས་འཁོར་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་གྱི་བསམ་ཡས།Tibetan
བསམ་ཡས་དགོན།Tibetan
བསམ་ཡས།Tibetan
Сам’єUkrainian
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