Kundeling Monastery
Kundeling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. It was founded around 1794, and follows the Gelug school. The head of the monastery belongs to a lineage of incarnations that dates back to 1402.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: building in Lhasa, China
- Also known as: “gongdelin si” and “功德林寺 ཀུན་བདེ་གླིང”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Potala Palace and Chagpori.
Potala Palace
Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5.
Potala Palace is a museum complex in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, built in the dzong style on Marpo Ri. Potala Palace is situated 1 km east of Kundeling Monastery.
Chagpori
Peak
Chagpori, or Chakpori, Chokpori, Chagpo Ri is a spirit-mountain of Vajrapani in Lhasa, Tibet. It is south of Potala and is considered to be one of the four holy mountains of central Tibet.
Norbulingka
Park
Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norbulingka is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet built from 1755. It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959. Norbulingka is situated 1½ km west of Kundeling Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lhasa and Zhol Village.
Lhasa
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet autonomous region in China. It is 3,650 m above sea level on the northern slopes of the Himalayas.
Zhol Village
Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans.
Pargor Subdistrict
Suburb
The Barkhor Square, or Barkhor, is an historic area of narrow streets and a public square with markets, and the circumambulation route around the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
Kundeling Monastery
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Lhasa, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.65624° or 29° 39′ 23″ northLongitude
91.10707° or 91° 6′ 26″ eastOpen location code
7MXHM444+FROpenStreetMap ID
way 1281329753OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q1797062
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Kundeling Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “功德林寺”
- Dutch: “Kunde Ling”
- Dutch: “Kundeling”
- Dutch: “Kündeling”
- Dutch: “Shree Choephel Kundeling”
- Dutch: “Shree Chophel Kundeling”
- Dutch: “Shree Chöphel Kündeling”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير كوندلينج”
- French: “Kundeling”
- French: “Kündeling”
- French: “monastère de Kundeling”
- French: “Monastère de Kundeling”
- French: “Temple de Kundeling”
- German: “Gongdelin”
- German: “Gundeling”
- German: “Jedrung Rinpoche (Kündeling)”
- German: “Jilong huofo”
- German: “Kundeling”
- German: “Kündeling”
- German: “Tatsak Hutuktu”
- German: “Tatsak Rinpoche”
- German: “Tatshag Rinpoche”
- Tibetan: “ཀུན་བདེ་གླིང་།”
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