Labrang Monastery

Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Lama Tsongkhapa. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: monastery in Xiahe County, Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Kloster Labrang”, “Labrang Si”, “Labrang Tashi Khyil”, “Labrang Tashikhyil”, “Labrang Tashikyil”, “Labrang Trashi Khyil”, “Labrang Trashikhyil”, “Labuleng si”, “lapuleng si”, “Lhabrang Monastery”, “དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།”, “བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ།”, “བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་”, “བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་ 拉卜楞寺”, “ラプラン・タシーキル寺”, and “ラブラン寺”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Labrang and Xiahe.

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Labrang Monastery

Latitude
35.19391° or 35° 11′ 38″ north
Longitude
102.50704° or 102° 30′ 25″ east
Open location code
8P745GV4+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 403020658
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
Wiki­data ID
Q1799533
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Tibetan—“Labrang Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Labrang monasterioa”
  • Chinese: “Lābǔlèng Sì”
  • Chinese: “拉卜楞寺”
  • Dutch: “Labrang (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Labrang”
  • French: “monastère de Labrang”
  • French: “Monastère de Labrang”
  • German: “Labrang-Kloster”
  • German: “Labrang”
  • Hebrew: “מנזר לאבראנג”
  • Hungarian: “Labrang kolostor”
  • Italian: “monastero di Labrang”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Labrang”
  • Japanese: “ラプラン寺”
  • Japanese: “ラプラン寺ラプラン寺”
  • Korean: “라브랑 사원”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Labrang”
  • Norwegian: “Labrang”
  • Polish: “Labrang (klasztor)”
  • Polish: “Labrang”
  • Russian: “Лабранг”
  • Swedish: “Labrangklostret”
  • Thai: “อารามลาชัง”
  • Tibetan: “བླ་བྲང་དགོན།”

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