NW China
Gansu
Gannan

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: “Labrang Si”, “Labrang Tashikhyil”, “lapuleng si”, “Lhabrang Monastery”, “དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།”, and “བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Labrang and Xiahe.

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County is a county in , province, , bordering province to the west. The name, which literally means "Xia River", refers to the which runs through the county.

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 Trashi Khyil”
  • Dutch: “Labrang”
  • French: “Labrang”
  • French: “monastère de Labrang”
  • French: “Monastère de Labrang”
  • German: “Kloster Labrang”
  • German: “Labrang Tashi Khyil”
  • German: “Labrang Tashikyil”
  • German: “Labrang Trashikhyil”
  • German: “Labrang-Kloster”
  • German: “Labrang”
  • German: “Labuleng si”
  • Hebrew: “מנזר לאבראנג”
  • Hungarian: “Labrang kolostor”
  • Italian: “monastero di Labrang”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Labrang”
  • Japanese: “ラプラン・タシーキル寺”
  • Japanese: “ラブラン寺”
  • 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: “Labrang”
  • Swedish: “Labrangklostret”
  • Thai: “อารามลาชัง”
  • Tibetan: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ།”
  • Tibetan: “བླ་བྲང་དགོན།”

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