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The monastery is the second-largest in Asia. [9] Thikse Monastery: Ladakh Gelug 15th century Tholing Monastery: West Tibet Tibet Institute Rikon: Rikon, Switzerland Nyingma: Since 2007, the monastery comprises representatives of all four great traditions : Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug. Tingri Monastery Tsang Tradruk Temple: Lhokha Gelug
The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the Tibet Autonomous Region for which there are Wikipedia articles.
Community of Jesus, a Benedictine monastery located in Orleans. Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard.
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra [1] is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, New York, United States, which serves as the North American seat of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage. It was founded in 1976 by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa with Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche as abbot. He held this position until his death in 2019. [2]
The monastery was also regularly visited by the early expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s and 1930s after a five-week journey from Darjeeling in the Indian foothills of the Himalaya. Most past and current expeditions attempting to summit Mount Everest from the north, Tibetan, side establish their Base Camp near the tongue of Rongbuk ...
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་) is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet. Founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama , [ 1 ] it is the traditional monastic seat of the Panchen Lama .
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The Jokhang consists of a Tibetan Buddhist temple, its temple complex, and a Gelug school monastery. Located in Barkhor Square , it was built in c.640 by King Songsten Gampo to house the Jowo Mikyo Dorje , [ 3 ] a statue of Akshobhya Buddha, brought to Tibet by his Nepalese queen, [ 2 ] Bhrikuti .