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Erdene Zuu

The Erdene Zuu Monastery is probably the earliest surviving Buddhist monastery in . Built in 1585, it is located in , and is now included within the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: monastery
  • Also known as: “Eerdeni zhao”, “Erdene Zuu Monastery”, and “Guangxian si”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kharkhorin Rock.

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Photo: auteur, CC BY 2.0.
, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock, is a large statue of a penis raised on a platform on the steppe, located near Erdene Zuu Monastery in , of . is situated 2 km southeast of Erdene Zuu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karakorum.

Photo: Aloxe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , about 300 km west of Ulaanbaatar as the crow flies. Locals call it Har Horin or Harhorin. and its surroundings have been the location of many imperial capitals throughout history, including that of the Uighur Khaganate, the Mongol Empire when Marco Polo visited, and later on, the Northern Yuan.

Erdene Zuu

Latitude
47.20162° or 47° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
102.84315° or 102° 50′ 35″ east
Open location code
8PV46R2V+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 397170801
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Wiki­data ID
Q1058965
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Erdene Zuu” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Monestir d’Erdene Zuu”
  • Chinese: “光显寺”
  • Chinese: “光顯寺”
  • Chinese: “额尔德尼召”
  • Chinese: “额尔德尼昭”
  • Czech: “Erdene Dzú”
  • Czech: “Erdenedzú”
  • Czech: “Erdeni dzú”
  • Dutch: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Esperanto: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Estonian: “Erden Dzuu”
  • Estonian: “Erdenedzuu hijd”
  • French: “Erdene Zuu”
  • German: “Erdene Dsu”
  • German: “Erdene Dsuu”
  • German: “Erdene Zuu”
  • German: “Kloster Erdene Dsuu”
  • Hungarian: “Erdeni Dzú”
  • Italian: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Japanese: “エルデネ・ゾー”
  • Japanese: “エルデネゾー”
  • Korean: “에르덴 조 사원”
  • Macedonian: “Ердене Зу манастир”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ зуу хийд”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ Зуу хийд”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ зуу”
  • Mongolian: “Эрдэнэ-Зуу хийд”
  • Polish: “Erdene Dzuu”
  • Polish: “Erdenedzuu chijd”
  • Russian: “Эрдэни-Дзу”
  • Russian: “Эрдэнэ-цзу”
  • Slovak: “Erdenedzú”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Erdene Zuu”
  • Spanish: “Erdene Zuu”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Erdene Zuu”
  • Thai: “อารามเอร์เดเนโซ”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་རྟེ་ནི་ཇོ་བོ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེར་ཏེ་ནི་ཇོ་བོ།”
  • Turkish: “Erdene Zuu Manastırı”
  • Uzbek: “Erdenidzu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tu viện Erdene Zuu”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Erdene Zuu Monastery Temple and Lavrin Süm.

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