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Monastery

Founded by Jamyang Zhepa ('jam dbyangs bzhad pa) in 1709 on the three-hundredth anniversary of Ganden Monastery, Labrang (bla brang) Monastery in Amdo (a mdo) is one of Tibet's largest monasteries. It is situated in a historically nomadic and semi-nomadic environment on the northeastern corner of the Tibetan Plateau in the region now called Sangchu (bsang chu) County, or in Chinese, Xiahe County. Despite its proximity to a diverse assortment of ethnic groups and religious traditions, Labrang is a fully developed Gelukpa (dge lugs pa) Tibetan Buddhist institution and indeed is famous as the home of some of Tibet's most respected scholars.

  • དགའ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • Ganden Shedrup Dargyé Trashi Yesu Khyilwé Ling (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • dga' ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis g.yas su 'khyil ba'i gling (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Contraction)
      • Labrang Trashi Khyil (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • bla brang bkra shis 'khyil (Tibetan, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • བླ་བྲང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Contraction)
      • བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Contraction)

Place ID: F15472

Latitude: 35.197222; Longitude: 102.51

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