Shelkar Chode Monastery
Shelkar Chode Monastery is a Buddhist temple in Xigaze, Tibet. Shelkar Chode Monastery is situated nearby to Shelkar Dzong, as well as near the government office 定日县政府.- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: monastery in Tingri, Shigatse, Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Shelkar Chode”, “Shelkhar Chode”, “xiege-er qude si”, “Xiege’er Qude Temple”, and “ཤེལ་དཀར་ཆོས་སྡེ་དགའ་ལྡན་ལེགས་བཤད་གླིང་”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shelkar.
Shelkar
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shelkar or Shekar, also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
Shelkar Chode Monastery
- Categories: Tibetan Buddhist monastery, residential area, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Xigaze, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.66957° or 28° 40′ 10″ northLongitude
87.11752° or 87° 7′ 3″ eastOpen location code
7MW9M499+R2OpenStreetMap ID
way 405801118OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q17022394
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Shelkar Chode Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “协格尔曲德寺”
- Tibetan: “ཤེལ་དཀར་ཆོས་སྡེ་དགའ་ལྡན་ལེགས་བཤད་གླིང་།”
- Tibetan: “ཤེལ་དཀར་ཆོས་སྡེ།”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shelkar Dzong and 定日县政府.
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