Badekar Monastery
Badakar Monastery, alternatively known as Udin Ju, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelug sect. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Inner Mongolia, and was designated a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in 1996.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: building in Xiguit District, China
- Also known as: “Guangjue si”, “Lamasserie”, “Pekar Choling”, “Wudang Lamasery”, “Wudang zhao”, “Wudang Zhao”, “Wudangzhao”, and “广觉寺”
Badekar Monastery
- Categories: monastery, Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
40.79125° or 40° 47′ 29″ north
Longitude
110.30801° or 110° 18′ 29″ east
Open location code
8PGGQ8R5+G6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetan
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Badekar Monastery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “五当召”
- Chinese: “五當召”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وودانج لاماسيرى”
- French: “Lamaserie Wudang”
- German: “Wudangzhao-Kloster”
- Tibetan: “པད་དཀར་ཆོས་གླིང་།”
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