Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery
| Gönlung Jampa Ling | |
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Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: དགོན་ལུང་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: dgon lung byams pa gling | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Sect | Gelug |
| Location | |
| Country | China |
  Location within China | |
| Geographic coordinates | 36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Gyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso |
| Date established | 1604 |
Gönlung Jampa Ling; Tibetan: དགོན་ལུང་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་།, Wylie: dgon lung byams pa gling; Chinese: 佑宁寺, pinyin:Yòuníng Sì ) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Gelug sect in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County of Qinghai province, China. The monastery was founded in 1604 by Gyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso.[1][2] Gönlung Jampa Ling housed the first Geluk seminary in Northeastern Tibet and was the seat if a number of important, high-ranking lamas including the Changkya and Thuken incarnation lineages.
Gonlung is one of four famous Tibetan monasteries (Chuzang, Serkhog, Jakhyung and Gonlung) in north-east Qinghai, earlier considered as a border area between Tibet and China.
In 1724 the monastery was destroyed by the Manchus during the suppression of Lhazang Khan[clarification needed] (a Mongol Khoshut ruler, killed by Dzungars in 1717), but rebuilt in 1732.[1]
Gallery
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Front view of Gönlung Jampa Ling main temple -
View of Gönlung Jampa Ling from above -
View of Gönlung Jampa Ling west temple from the east
Sources
- Sullivan, Brenton (2013). The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet (Ph.D.). University of Virginia.[permanent dead link]
References
- ^ a b Dorje, Gyurme (2004). Footprint Tibet (3 ed.). Bath: Footprint. pp. 581–2. ISBN 1-903471-30-3.
- ^ "dgon lung dgon pa". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
External links
- Gonlung Jampaling Monastery
- Gönlung Jampa Ling - THL Place Dictionary
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