Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil; Chinese: Lābǔléng Sì, 拉卜楞寺) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling (Tibetan: དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།, Wylie: dge ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis gyas su 'khyil ba'i gling).[1]
Labrang is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is about four hours by car from the provincial capital Lanzhou.
In the early part of the 20th century, Labrang was by far the largest and most influential monastery in Amdo. It is located on the Daxia River, a tributary of the Yellow River.[2]
LabrangMonastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil; Chinese: Lābǔléng Sì, 拉卜楞寺) is one of the six great monasteries...
Yongjing in the summer or fall. There is no other access point. Labrang Tashikyil Monastery is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture...
outside the designated Tibet Autonomous Region. The arrest of monks at LabrangMonastery increased the tension of the situation. Clashes occurred between Tibetans...
List of Himalayan monasteries and shrines is a list of Buddhist monasteries and shrines in the Himalayas. Buddhism had spread to the Himalayan region...
Ngawang-tsondru (1648–1722), as at Gomang College of Drepung Monastery and LabrangMonastery. The highest degrees of Geshe Rabjampa and Geshe Shayrampa...
maintenance of the monastery, and for the monks' medical fees. The administration of the monastery was the responsibility of the Tsurphu Labrang, which was organized...
This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...
and Aba (Sichuan province) to the south. It includes Xiahe and the LabrangMonastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has...
studied at Drepung Gomang College, Drepung Deyang College, LabrangMonastery, and most monasteries in Inner and Outer Mongolia, Buryatia, Kalmykia, and Tuva...
scholarship and contains many great monasteries including Kumbum Monastery near Xining, Rongwo Monastery in Rebgong, LabrangMonastery south of Lanzhou, and the...
rebellion. Ma Qi formed the Ninghai Army in Qinghai in 1915. He occupied Labrangmonastery in 1917, the first time non-Tibetans had seized it. After ethnic rioting...
to seize and garrison Labrangmonastery from the Tibetans. It left in 1927. The Tibetan Golok people, owing allegiance to Labrang, attacked the Muslim...
Buddhism. They have traditionally been the most prestigious teachers at LabrangMonastery in Amdo, Tibet (modern Gansu, China). The first Jamyang Zhepa, Ngawang...
of the Kadhampa Dharmaraja (The 25th Atisha Jiangqiu Tilei), Nepal LabrangMonastery in eastern Amdo Kumbum Jampaling in central Amdo Jokhang Temple in...
ISBN 978-3447040914. Nietupski, Paul K. (2015). "Chapter 6 Islam and LabrangMonastery A Muslim community in a Tibetan Buddhist Estate". In M Hille, Marie-Paule;...
Jamyang Zhépa of LabrangMonastery. Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama, returned here and built Kampo Nénang Monastery and Pangphuk Monastery. It also has strong...
to the Tibetan Plateau in 1932 and filmed the Panchen Lama at the LabrangMonastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, served as the Tibetan technical expert on...
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