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 Deutsen.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Samye, Zhanang, Shannan, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Klášter Samjä”, “Monastero di Samye”, “Samyä”, “Samyai”, “Samyé”, “Samye Gompa”, “Samye klooster”, “Samye Monastery”, “Samye-Kloster”, “Samye-Ling”, “Samyeling”, “sangye si”, “Sangye si”, “Sangye Si”, “Sangye-Kloster”, “Shamoye Monastery”, “Wihara Samye”, “Саме Гомпа”, “Самйе”, “Самйе Гомпа”, “ཆོས་འཁོར་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་གྱི་བསམ་ཡས།”, “བསམ་ཡས།”, “サムイェ寺”, “サムエー寺”, and “サムエ寺”
Samye
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, cultural heritage of China, place of worship, religious organization, and religion
- Location: Shannan, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.3266° or 29° 19′ 36″ north
Longitude
91.5024° or 91° 30′ 9″ east
Elevation
3,576 metres (11,732 feet)
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.
- Basque: “Samyeko monasterioa”
- Belarusian: “Сам’е”
- Bengali: “ব্সাম-য়াস বৌদ্ধবিহার”
- Bulgarian: “Самие”
- Burmese: “ဆမ်ရီ”
- Chinese: “桑耶寺”
- Czech: “Samjä”
- Dutch: “Samye”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد سامى”
- Estonian: “Samje klooster”
- French: “monastère de Samyé”
- French: “Monastère de Samyé”
- Georgian: “სამიე”
- German: “Samye”
- Hebrew: “סאמיה”
- Hindi: “समये”
- Hungarian: “Szamje kolostor”
- Indonesian: “Samye”
- Italian: “Samye”
- Japanese: “サムイェー寺”
- Korean: “삼예 사원”
- Korean: “삼예사”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samye”
- Norwegian: “Samye”
- Polish: “Samje”
- Portuguese: “Samye”
- Russian: “Самье”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Samje”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de Samye”
- Swedish: “Samye”
- Tibetan: “བསམ་ཡས་དགོན།”
- Ukrainian: “Сам’є”
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