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The Inner Mountain is located near the modern Coptic Christian Monastery of Saint Anthony (Dayr Mārī Antonios) in Egypt which was built in the fourth century and which is reputedly Christianity's oldest operating monastery. [4] [10] [11] It is about 160 kilometers southeast of Cairo, in the northern foothills of the Red Sea Mountains. [12] [11]
Maizhokunggar County or Meldro Gungkar County is a county of Lhasa and east of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet Autonomous Region.It has an area of 5,492 square kilometres (2,120 sq mi) with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).
The Jowo Temple of Kyichu is one of the oldest temples in Bhutan, originally built in the 7th century by the Tibetan Emperor Songtsen Gampo, the 33rd King of the Yarlung dynasty, who ruled Tibet for much of the first millennium.
Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang [zlum brtshegs lha khang] or Dungtse Lhakhang is a Buddhist temple in western Bhutan.The temple is notable as it is in the form of a chorten, very rare in Bhutan.
Kirti Gompa was founded in 1472 by Rongpa Chenakpa, a disciple of Tsongkhapa. [2] It was established as a branch of Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Gompa (Nama Ge’erde Si) near the border with Gansu Province in 1693 but has outgrown its mother monastery. The first Kirti Monastery founded by lama Kirti Rinpoche [3] was in Gyelrang.
Kurjey Lhakhang,སྐུ་རྗེས་ ཡང་ན་ གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གི་ ཞབས་རྗེས་ also known as the Kurjey Monastery, is located in the Bumthang valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. This is the final resting place of the remains of the first three Kings of Bhutan. [1]
It was previously the largest monastery in the county with some 500 monks about the beginning of the 20th century. This had dropped to about 70 monks at the time of the 2008 crackdown. [1] "On April 3, 2008, troops fired upon protesters from Tongkor (Chinese: Donggu) monastery, 60 kilometers from Kardze town, killing at least 10 people.
The monastery took its name, Serlung, from the sacred lake located near the temple. The people living in the area faced hard times since they didn’t have rain during their cultivation. There were two lakes with two nymphs (mother and daughter) at Hoshala, which is located about 12 km from the monastery.