Derge Parkhang
The Dêrgê Barkang is the barkang associated to the Goinqên Monastery.Photo: Ljbonner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Chinese printing house in Dêgê, Garzê, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Bakong Scripture Printing Press and Monastery”, “Barkhang”, “de ge yin jing yuan”, “Dege Barkhang”, “Dege Parkhang”, “Dege Yinjing Yuan”, “Derge Barkhang”, “Derge Printery”, “Derge Sutra Printing Temple”, “Parkhang”, and “Scripter Printing House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gonchen Monastery.
Gonchen Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gonchen Monastery, also known as Derge Monastery, is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of Kham. Gonchen Monastery is situated 260 metres east of Derge Parkhang.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Derge.
Derge
Town
Photo: NoGhost, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Derge, officially Gengqing Town, is a town in Dêgê County in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China. It was once the center of the Kingdom of Derge in Kham.
Derge Parkhang
- Categories: printery, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Dêgê, Ganzi, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.80657° or 31° 48′ 24″ northLongitude
98.58049° or 98° 34′ 50″ eastOpen location code
8M3WRH4J+J5OpenStreetMap ID
way 512410353OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q1808418
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Derge Parkhang” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “de ge yin jing yuan”
- Chinese: “德格印经院”
- Dutch: “Derge”
- Dutch: “Gongchen”
- French: “Derge Parkhang”
- French: “Imprimerie de Dergué”
- German: “Dege Parkhang”
- Latin: “Derge Parkhang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Derge Parkhang”
- Norwegian: “Derge Parkhang”
- Russian: “Деге Паркханг”
- Russian: “Паркханг”
- Tibetan: “sde dge dpar khang”
- Tibetan: “sde dge par khang chos mdzod chen mo bkra shis sgo mang”
- Tibetan: “sde dge par khang chos mdzod chen mo”
- Tibetan: “sde dge par khang”
- Tibetan: “sde dge spar khang”
- Tibetan: “སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “སྡེ་དགེ་པར་ཁང་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒོ་མང་།”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 德格县人民政府 and 德格县人民医院.
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