Palcho Monastery

The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in , , Shigatse Prefecture, .
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • 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”, and “དཔལ་འཁོར་ཆོས་སྡེ 白居寺”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gyantse Fortress.

Photo: Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn), CC BY 2.0.
Gyantse Dzong or is one of the best preserved dzongs in , perched high above the town of on a huge spur of grey brown rock. is situated 1 km southeast of Palcho Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gyantse.

Photo: Banja-Frans Mulder, CC BY 3.0.
, officially Gyangzê Town, is a town located in , Shigatse Prefecture, , China. It was historically considered the third largest and most prominent town in , but there are now at least ten larger Tibetan cities.

Palcho Monastery

Latitude
28.92453° or 28° 55′ 28″ north
Longitude
89.59508° or 89° 35′ 42″ east
Open location code
7MWFWHFW+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1551518741
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Wiki­data ID
Q1785045
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Palcho Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “江孜白居寺”
  • Chinese: “班廓德庆”
  • Chinese: “白居寺”
  • Dutch: “Palcho”
  • Estonian: “Gyantse kumbum”
  • Estonian: “Palkhor-chöde”
  • French: “monastère de Palcho”
  • French: “Monastère de Palcho”
  • German: “Palkhor Chöde”
  • German: “Pelkhor Chöde”
  • Hungarian: “Palcso kolostor”
  • Polish: “Palkor Czade”
  • Russian: “Пелкор Чёде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samostan Palcho”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Palčo”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio Palcho”
  • Tibetan: “དཔལ་ཆོས་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “དཔལ་འཁོར་བདེ་ཆེན།”

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Highlights include 宗山 and Dzong Park.

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