Kirti Gompa
Kirti Gompa, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries and nunneries are located nearby.Photo: JialiangGao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Denomination: Tibetan
- Description: Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China’s Sichuan Province
- Also known as: “geerdeng si”, “Gerdeng Monastery”, “Kirti Kalari Gon Tashi Lhundrub”, “Kirti Monastery”, “ཀི་རྟི་དགོན་པ”, “ཀིརྟི་དགོན 格尔登寺”, and “རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Setenling Gompa.
Setenling Gompa
Buddhist temple
Setenling Gompa, Ser Gompa, is a Jonangpa monastery about a kilometre from the eastern edge of Aba or Ngawa City, the main city in Ngawa County, within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. Setenling Gompa is situated 3 km southeast of Kirti Gompa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aba.
Aba
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ngawa or Aba town is the seat of Ngawa County, within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres.
Kirti Gompa
- Categories: Gompa, Tibetan Buddhist monastery, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.91437° or 32° 54′ 52″ northLongitude
101.69241° or 101° 41′ 33″ eastOpen location code
8P43WM7R+PXOpenStreetMap ID
way 545802784OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=tibetanWikidata ID
Q1633318
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Kirti Gompa” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “géěrdēng sì”
- Chinese: “格尔登寺”
- Dutch: “Kirti”
- French: “monastère de Kirti”
- French: “Monastère de Kirti”
- German: “Kirti Gompa”
- German: “Kirti-Kloster”
- Japanese: “キルティ・ゴンパ”
- Tibetan: “ཀིརྟི་དགོན་”
- Tibetan: “རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་།”
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