Kumbum Monastery

Kumbum Monastery
Kumbum Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s); Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་།; Wylie transliteration: sku 'bum byams pa gling; Chinese transcription(s); Simplified: 塔尔寺; Pinyin: Tǎ'ěrsì
	Kumbum Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Deity	Je Tsongkhapa
Location
Location	Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai
Country	China
	Location of Kumbum Monastery Kumbum Monastery (China)
Geographic coordinates	36°28′53.18″N 101°35′57.09″E / 36.4814389°N 101.5991917°E
Architecture
Founder	3rd Dalai Lama
Date established	1583

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.
^ ^a ^b Mabel 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.

[1] "sku 'bum dgon". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center.

[cabot1-2] Mabel H. Cabot (2003). Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, 1921-1925. Aperture Publishers. p. 137. ISBN 1-931788-18-9.

[3] 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.

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Kumbum Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: sku 'bum byams pa gling Chinese transcription(s) Simplified: 塔尔寺 Pinyin: Tǎ'ěrsì
Kumbum Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Deity	Je Tsongkhapa
Location
Location	Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai
Country	China
Location of Kumbum Monastery Show map of Qinghai Kumbum Monastery (China) Show map of China
Geographic coordinates	36°28′53.18″N 101°35′57.09″E / 36.4814389°N 101.5991917°E / 36.4814389; 101.5991917
Architecture
Founder	3rd Dalai Lama
Date established	1583