Drepung Monastery (Tibetan: འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན་པ, Wylie: bras spungs dgon pa, THL: drépung gönpa,[1] "Rice Heap Monastery"),[2][3] located at the foot of Mount Gephel, is one of the "great three" Gelug university gompas (monasteries) of Tibet. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Sera Monastery.
Drepung is the largest of all Tibetan monasteries and is located on the Gambo Utse mountain, five kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa.
Freddie Spencer Chapman reported, after his 1936–37 trip to Tibet, that Drepung was at that time the largest monastery in the world, and housed 7,700 monks, "but sometimes as many as 10,000 monks."[4][5]
Since the 1950s, Drepung Monastery, along with its peers Ganden and Sera, have lost much of their independence and spiritual credibility in the eyes of Tibetans since they operate under the close watch of the Chinese security services.[citation needed] All three were re-established in exile in the 1950s in the state of Karnataka in south-west India. Drepung and Ganden are in Mundgod and Sera is in Bylakuppe.
^TBRC
^Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land. Patrick French. (2003) Alfred A. Knopf. New York City, p.240 (in quote from 13th Dalai Lama).
^Dialogues Tibetan Dialogues Han. Hannue. Quoting a monk at Drepung.
^Chapman F. Spencer. Lhasa the Holy City, p. 195. Readers Union Ltd., London.
^"What we don't hear about Tibet" Archived 2017-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian (Comment is Free). (Wednesday 11 February 2009 22.00 GMT)
DrepungMonastery (Tibetan: འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན་པ, Wylie: bras spungs dgon pa, THL: drépung gönpa, "Rice Heap Monastery"), located at the foot of Mount Gephel...
Gelug university monasteries of Tibet. It is in Dagzê County, Lhasa. The other two are Sera Monastery and DrepungMonastery. Ganden Monastery was founded in...
a religious association with DrepungMonastery of Lhasa, which continued during the period of British rule. The monastery is three stories high. It is...
Lusar in the historical Tibetan region of Amdo. Its superior monastery is DrepungMonastery, immediately to the west of Lhasa. It is ranked in importance...
list of Buddhist monasteries see list of Buddhist temples. Buddhist monasteries include some of the largest in the world. DrepungMonastery in Tibet housed...
Monastery and DrepungMonastery.) The origin of its name is attributed to a fact that during construction, the hill behind the monastery was covered with...
misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya...
accompanying his birth. "He was recognized by a delegation from his Drêpungmonastery and the princes of Ü, which had gone to Kweisui (Köke Qoto, Inner...
Namgyal Monastery (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།, Wylie: rnam rgyal) (also often referred to as "Dalai Lama's Temple") is currently located in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala...
Gelugpa monasteries. The third Dalai Lama studied at DrepungMonastery and became its abbot. His reputation spread quickly and the monks at Sera Monastery also...
controversies or jealousy" he had to leave the monastery and went to Lhasa to study at DrepungMonastery. Gedun Gyatso was a renowned scholar and composer...
Fortress of the Oracle King." It is about 10 minutes walk down from DrepungMonastery, and was the residence of the three-headed, six-armed Pehar Gyalpo...
a fourth great monastery, Tashi Lhunpo, at Shigatse. The 2nd studied there before returning to Lhasa, where he became Abbot of Drepung. Having reactivated...
His Seat was the upper residence (Wylie: gzims khang gong ma) of DrepungMonastery, a famous Gelug gompa located near Lhasa. Tibetan Buddhists consider...
the Gelugpa sect and is the largest Buddhist monastery in India. It is associated with DrepungMonastery in Lhasa. The name Tawang means Chosen Horse...
altitudes. Tibetan Mastiff with its owner in 1911 Tibetan Mastiff in DrepungMonastery, Lhasa, Tibet Tibetan Mastiff in Sandakpur, Nepal Tibetan Mastiff...
and was enrolled at DrepungMonastery and studied both sutra and tantra. He likely studied at Ganden Monastery and Sera Monastery as well. He studied...
Sera Monastery in Lhasa DrepungMonastery in Lhasa Tashilhunpo in Shigatse List Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh Himalayan monasteries "Tibetan...
founding of three large Gelugpa monasteries by Je Tsongkhapa and his disciples. The three monasteries are Ganden, Sera and Drepung which were built as part of...
protests which were likewise led by monks from Sera monastery, Drepungmonastery and Ganden monastery. Of the 1989 bloody suppression in Lhasa, journalist...
Ganden monastery in 1409, which was followed by the founding of Drepung (1416) and Sera (in 1419), which became the "great three" Gelug monasteries (and...
goes by the name of Dhardo Tulku. He is studying Tibetan Philosophy at Drepung Loseling University in South India. Under the supervision of Dhardo Rimpoche...
in the Potala Palace Palcho Monastery Roof of the Jokhang Pillar design Tibetan architectural details DrepungMonastery stairway Entrance Shrine courtyard...
Lhasa: DrepungMonastery — the home monastery of the Dalai Lama Ganden Monastery — the seat of the Ganden Tripa Sera Monastery Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse...
violent means, even including the killing of its enemies." The abbot of DrepungMonastery and the 13th Dalai Lama were opposed to Pabongkapa's propitiation...
was ideal as a seat of government, situated as it is between Drepung and Sera monasteries and the old city of Lhasa. It may overlie the remains of an earlier...
Karma, Drugpa and Jonangpa Kagyu orders, (beside the Gelug group from Drepungmonastery) had all independently sought to claim Künga Migyur as a reincarnation...
temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas in the Tibet Autonomous Region for which there are Wikipedia articles. Chokorgyel Monastery Dorje Drak Drepung Monastery...
Chinese: 大昭寺), or the Ra sa 'phrul snang gtsug lag khang, or Qoikang Monastery, or Zuglagkang, (Tibetan: གཙུག་ལག་ཁང༌།, Wylie: gtsug-lag-khang, ZYPY:...
Global Information
