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Milarepa’s Cave

Milarepa's Cave or Namkading Cave is a cave where the Tibetan Buddhist philosopher, and Vajrayana Mahasiddha, Milarepa spent many years of his life in the eleventh century.
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  • Type: Place of worship
  • Description: cave and monastery in Nyalam County, Tibet
  • Also known as: “Milarepa’s Cave, Nyalam”, “Namkading Cave”, “Nyanang Pelgye Ling Monastery”, “Pelgye Ling Monastery”, and “Phelgyeling Monastery”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyalam.

Photo: Manuel Velazquez, CC BY 3.0.
is a small town in and the county seat of in the Shigatse Prefecture of the , near the border. It is 35 km from town in the same county, which is the point of entry to .

Milarepa’s Cave

Latitude
28.24172° or 28° 14′ 30″ north
Longitude
86.00765° or 86° 0′ 28″ east
Open location code
7MW862R5+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 764872852
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q2091749
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Tibetan—“Milarepa’s Cave” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Milareparen leizea”
  • Catalan: “Cova de Milarepa”
  • Catalan: “cova Namkading”
  • Chinese: “培杰林寺”
  • Chinese: “密勒日巴修行洞”
  • Chinese: “密勒日巴禅修洞”
  • Chinese: “潘杰林寺”
  • Chinese: “米拉热巴修行洞”
  • Chinese: “聂拉木县培杰林寺”
  • Dutch: “Grot van Milarepa”
  • French: “grotte de Milarépa”
  • French: “Grotte de Milarépa”
  • Italian: “grotta di Milarepa”
  • Italian: “Grotta di Milarepa”
  • Italian: “Namkading Cave”
  • Japanese: “ミラレパ修行洞”
  • Russian: “Пещера Миларепы”
  • Slovenian: “Jama Milarepe”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de Milarepa”
  • Tibetan: “གཉའ་ནང་གྲོད་པ་ཕུག་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “གཉའ་ནང་དགའ་ལྡན་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་གླིང་།”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Milarepa’s Cave”. Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0.