Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

In 1980, Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok founded , which was officially named by the 10th Panchen Lama in 1987 as Serta Larung Five Science Buddhist Academy, also known of in Tibetan: བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།, ZWPY: Serta Larung Ngarig Nangdän Lobling, located in the near the township of Larung in , , Province, known of as .
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  • Type: College
  • Denomination: Tibetan
  • Description: In Tibet
  • Also known as: “Centre for the Five Traditional Sciences and Higher Buddhist Studies”, “Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy”, “Larung Gar”, “Larung Ngarig Buddhist Institute”, “seda wuming foxueyuan”, “喇荣佛学院”, “色达佛学院”, and “色达县喇荣寺五明佛学院”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nupzur.

Town
Larung Gar in the Larung Valley is a community in of , in , , known as Amdo. Larung Gar is the local name for the community of mostly Tibetan and Han Chinese students which grew around the Serta Larung Five Science Buddhist Academy, founded in 1980 by Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok.

Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Latitude
32.1531° or 32° 9′ 11″ north
Longitude
100.46927° or 100° 28′ 9″ east
Operator
色达五明佛学院院务委员会
Open location code
8P425F39+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 410417343
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­college
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­tibetan
Wiki­data ID
Q18658243
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tibetan—“Larung Gar Buddhist Academy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكاديمية لارونج غار البوذية”
  • Chinese: “གསེར་རྟ་བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་”
  • Chinese: “喇荣五明佛学院”
  • Chinese: “色达五明佛学院”
  • Chinese: “色达喇荣五明佛学院”
  • Chinese: “色达喇荣寺五明佛学院”
  • French: “Institut bouddhiste de Larung Gar”
  • German: “Buddhistisches Lehrinstitut Larung der Fünf klassischen Wissenschaften”
  • German: “Klosteruniversität Larung Gar”
  • German: “Larong Wuming Foxueyuan”
  • German: “Larung Gar”
  • German: “Seda Larong Wuming Foxueyuan”
  • German: “Serthang Larung Ngarig Nangten Lobling”
  • German: “Wuming Foxueyuan”
  • Hebrew: “लारुङ बौद्ध विद्यापीठ”
  • Hindi: “लारुङ बौद्ध विद्यापीठ”
  • Hindi: “लारूंग गार बौद्ध एकेडमी”
  • Japanese: “ラルンガル・ゴンパ”
  • Japanese: “ラルンガルゴンパ”
  • Japanese: “ラルンガル僧院”
  • Japanese: “ラルン五明仏学院”
  • Japanese: “喇荣五明仏学院”
  • Japanese: “喇荣五明佛学院”
  • Nepali: “लारुङ बौद्ध विद्यापीठ”
  • Russian: “Буддистская Академия Ларунг Гар”
  • Tibetan: “གསེར་རྟ་བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་”
  • Tibetan: “བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “བླ་རུང་སློབ་གླིང་།”

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