Kumbum Monastery (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་, THL Kumbum Jampa Ling),[1] also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Lusar, Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai, China. It was founded in 1583 in a narrow valley close to the village of Lusar in the historical Tibetan region of Amdo.[2] Its superior monastery is Drepung Monastery, immediately to the west of Lhasa.[3] It is ranked in importance as second only to Lhasa.[2]
^"sku 'bum dgon". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.
^ abMabel H. Cabot (2003). Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, 1921-1925. Aperture Publishers. p. 137. ISBN 1-931788-18-9.
^Thubten Jigme Norbu (1986). Tibet is My Country: Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer. Edward Fitzgerald (trans.). Wisdom Publications. p. 163. ISBN 0-86171-045-2.
KumbumMonastery (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་, THL Kumbum Jampa Ling), also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Lusar, Huangzhong County, Xining...
Buddhist chapels in Tibetan Buddhism. The most famous Kumbum forms part of Palcho Monastery. The first Kumbum was founded in the fire sheep year 1427 by a Gyantse...
administration, to Labrang Tashi Khyi, the largest monastery in the area after the famous KumbumMonastery. Taktser is the original Tibetan name of Hongya...
Je Tsongkhapa's father, Lumbum Ghe, the throne holder and abbot of KumbumMonastery. He has trained with lineage teachers, such as the 14th Dalai Lama...
Autonomous Region. The monastery precinct is a complex of structures which, apart from the Tsuklakhang Monastery, also includes its Kumbum, believed to be the...
educated at Kumbum. Kumbum is a monastery of the Gelugpa tradition. "During the turmoil of the Manchu decline", Taktser Lama left Kumbum to live in Mongolia...
This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...
scholarship and contains many great monasteries including KumbumMonastery near Xining, Rongwo Monastery in Rebgong, Labrang Monastery south of Lanzhou, and the...
'Dalai', he returned to Tibet to found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. The 4th was then...
on a hill, at the end of a trail leading to Taktser from the great KumbumMonastery with its gilded, turquoise roof. There they found a house, as interpreted...
Tseten on June 3, 1949. Chinese Nationalist governor Ma Bufang allowed KumbumMonastery to be totally self-governed by Tseten, now called Gyaltsen, while the...
prefecture under that name since that time. In the late 16th century, the KumbumMonastery was founded some 19 km (12 mi) to the southeast, establishing Xi'ning...
or Kee; pronounced like the English word key) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa sect located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4,166 metres...
brother of Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama, reporting on his trip from KumbumMonastery in Amdo to Lhasa in 1950, wrote: The kyangs or wild asses, live together...
hú) is another tourist attraction, albeit further from Xining than KumbumMonastery (Ta'er Si). The lake is the largest saltwater lake in China, and is...
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...
Autonomous County (except Laoye Mountain), Huangzhong County (except KumbumMonastery), and Huangyuan County around Xining, the capital of Qinghai, maintain...
remaining monasteries on the eastern plateau. Monasteries such as the KumbumMonastery continue to be affected by Chinese politics. Simbiling Monastery was...
narrated and depicted in a specific cham dance once held annually at KumbumMonastery in Qinghai. The 18th century Puning Temple built by the Qianlong Emperor...
The Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, also known as Sungtseling and Guihuasi (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་, Wylie: dga' ldan sum rtsen gling, THL: ganden...
Pufang intervened and moved it 200 km (120 mi) west[citation needed] to KumbumMonastery near his capital Xining, consecrating it with the help of local and...
undecided. Kangxi ordered the boy and his father to be interned in KumbumMonastery in Kokonor in 1715. During his reign, Lha-bzang abolished compulsory...
Temple was completed in 1813. Architecturally resembling the famous KumbumMonastery in Tibet. The Tsogchin Dugan was one of the largest buildings in all...
the political situation. The Dalai Lama later stayed at the great KumbumMonastery near Xining and then travelled east to the most sacred of four Buddhist...
into Litang monastery for protection and training. In 1715, the Kangxi Emperor sponsored Kelzang Gyatso's entrance into KumbumMonastery. This entrance...
Qinghai served as a "sanctuary" for Red Sect members; Ma Bufang allowed KumbumMonastery to be totally self-governed by the Panchen Lama. General Ma Bufang...
show her homesickness. Monasteries such as the KumbumMonastery continue to be affected by Chinese politics. Simbiling Monastery was completely flattened...
Name Date of Inclusion Description Image Qinghai Haibei Qinghai Lake 2011 Qinghai Xining KumbumMonastery 2012 Qinghai Haidong Huzhu Homeland Park 2017...
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