Gonchen Monastery

Gonchen Monastery, also known as Derge Monastery, is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of , in , . Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of .
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: Gonchen Monastery
  • Also known as: “Dêgê Gönchen”, “Derge Gonchen”, “gengqing si”, “Gönchen Gön”, “དགོན་ཆེན་དགོན”, “དགོན་ཆེན་དགོན།”, “དགོན་ཆེན།”, “དཔལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་གི་ཆོས་གྲྭ”, and “ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་དགོན”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Derge Parkhang.

Buddhist temple
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The Dêrgê Barkang is the barkang associated to the Goinqên Monastery. is situated 260 metres west of Gonchen Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Derge.

Town
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, officially Gengqing Town, is a town in in in , . It was once the center of the Kingdom of in .

Gonchen Monastery

Latitude
31.80572° or 31° 48′ 21″ north
Longitude
98.58307° or 98° 34′ 59″ east
Open location code
8M3WRH4M+76
Open­Street­Map ID
way 326390600
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q21017683
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Tibetan—“Gonchen Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “gēngqìng sì”
  • Chinese: “更庆寺”
  • Chinese: “更慶寺”
  • Dutch: “Derge (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Derge”
  • French: “monastère de Derge Gonchen”
  • French: “Monastère de Derge Gonchen”
  • German: “Dege Gönchen”
  • German: “Gönchen-Kloster”
  • Japanese: “デルゲ・ゴンチェン”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gonchenklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Gonchenklosteret”
  • Russian: “Гонгчен”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན།”

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