Palcho Monastery
The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tibetan Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Gyantsé county, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as“Gyangtse Monastery”“Gyantsé monastery”“jiangzi baiju si”“Palkhor Chöde”“Pelkor Chode”“Shekar Gyantse”“དཔལ་འཁོར་ཆོས་སྡེ 白居寺”
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Palcho Monastery
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Latitude
28.92453° or 28° 55′ 28″ north
Longitude
89.59508° or 89° 35′ 42″ east
Open location code
7MWFWHFW+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
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amenity = place_of_worship
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historic = temple
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landuse = religious
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tourism = attraction
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denomination = tibetan
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Palcho Monastery” goes by many names.
江孜白居寺Chinese
班廓德庆Chinese
白居寺Chinese
PalchoDutch
Gyantse kumbumEstonian
Palkhor-chödeEstonian
Palcso kolostorHungarian
Palkor CzadePolish
Пелкор ЧёдеRussian
Samostan PalchoSerbo-Croatian
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