Erdene Zuu Monastery

Erdene Zuu Monastery
Эрдэнэ Зуу хийд
ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་
Erdene Zuu Monastery; Эрдэнэ Зуу хийд; ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་
	Erdene Zuu Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Location
Location	Near Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia
Country	Mongolia
	Location within Mongolia
Geographic coordinates	47°12′06″N 102°50′36″E / 47.20167°N 102.84333°E
Architecture
Founder	Abtai Sain Khan
Date established	1585

The Erdene Zuu Monastery (Mongolian: Эрдэнэ Зуу хийд)^[a] is probably the earliest surviving Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. Located in Övörkhangai Province, approximately 2 km north-east from the center of Kharkhorin and adjacent to the ancient city of Karakorum, it is part of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.^[1] The monastery is affiliated with the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism.^[2]

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^ "Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape". Retrieved 12 March 2013.
^ Ye, Luhua; Ren, Jiyu (2006). 佛教史. Nanjing: 江苏人民出版社. ISBN 9787214041364.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape". Retrieved 12 March 2013.

[3] Ye, Luhua; Ren, Jiyu (2006). 佛教史. Nanjing: 江苏人民出版社. ISBN 9787214041364.^{[permanent dead link]}

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