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Feature Type:
Large Monastery
  • འབྲས་སྤུངས། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • Drepung (Tibetan, Tibetan script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • 'bras spungs (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Expansion)
      • Drepung Monastery (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • Drepung Gön (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • 'bras spungs dgon (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Expansion)
Etymology for འབྲས་སྤུངས།:

Literally, "rice-heap", it is named after its visual appearance from an array of buildings at the foot of the mountain.

Place ID: F15468

Geocode Name: GB Code - Ryavec, Code: gb.ryavec

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