Samding Monastery

Samding Monastery "The Temple of Soaring Meditation" is a 13th century gompa built on a hill along a narrow peninsula that juts into Yamdrok Lake, southwest of Lhasa and about 10 kilometres east of Nangkatse, in .
Wikipedia
  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Monastery in Nagarzê, Shannan, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Samding Gompa”, “Samten Ling Gompa”, and “sangding si”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nagarzê.

Town
Photo: Ernst Schäfer, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
is a township and seat of in the of . It lies at an altitude of 4452 metres. is situated 7 km west of Samding Monastery.

Samding Monastery

Latitude
28.97423° or 28° 58′ 27″ north
Longitude
90.47337° or 90° 28′ 24″ east
Open location code
7MWGXFFF+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1455160741
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q1423544
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tibetan—“Samding Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Samding”
  • Chinese: “桑丁寺”
  • Chinese: “桑頂寺”
  • Chinese: “桑顶寺”
  • Dutch: “Samding”
  • French: “monastère de Samding”
  • French: “Monastère de Samding”
  • French: “Samding”
  • German: “Samding”
  • Italian: “Samding”
  • Polish: “Samding”
  • Portuguese: “Samding”
  • Spanish: “Samding”
  • Tibetan: “‘gro ’du ba’i bsti gnas bsam grub chos kyi sde”
  • Tibetan: “bo dong bsam sdings”
  • Tibetan: “bsam sdings dgon pa”
  • Tibetan: “Bsam-lding Rdo-rje-phag-mo”
  • Tibetan: “Bsam-lding-dgon-pa”
  • Tibetan: “Pel Khandro Duwei Tine Samdrub Chokyi De”
  • Tibetan: “Yardrok Samding”
  • Tibetan: “དཔལ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་འདུ་བའི་བསྟི་གནས་བསམ་གྲུབ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྡེ།”
  • Tibetan: “བསམ་སྡིང་དགོན།”

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