Gonchen Monastery
Gonchen Monastery, also known as Derge Monastery, is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of Kham.
- Tibetan Buddhist temple
- Description: Gonchen Monastery
- Also known as“Dêgê Gönchen”“Derge Gonchen”“gengqing si”“Gönchen Gön”“དགོན་ཆེན་དགོན།”“དགོན་ཆེན།”“དཔལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་གི་ཆོས་གྲྭ”“ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་དགོན”“སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན 更庆寺”
Places of Interest Nearby
Discover Derge Parkhang.
Derge Parkhang
The Dêrgê Barkang is the barkang associated to the Goinqên Monastery.
260 metres west of Gonchen Monastery
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Derge.
Gonchen Monastery
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Latitude
31.80572° or 31° 48′ 21″ north
Longitude
98.58307° or 98° 34′ 59″ east
Open location code
8M3WRH4M+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity = place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
building = yes
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination = tibetan
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Gonchen Monastery” goes by many names.
gēngqìng sìChinese
更庆寺Chinese
更慶寺Chinese
DergeDutch
Derge (klooster)Dutch
デルゲ・ゴンチェンJapanese
GonchenklosteretNorwegian
GonchenklosteretNorwegian Bokmål
ГонгченRussian
ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྟེང་དགོན།Tibetan
སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན།Tibetan
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