Gonchen Monastery

Gonchen Monastery
Gonchen Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s); Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན; Wylie transliteration: sde dge dgon chen; Other transcriptions: Dege Gönchen; Chinese transcription(s); Traditional: 更慶寺; Simplified: 更庆寺; Pinyin: Gèngqìng Sì
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Sakya
Deity	Padmasambhava, Sakyamuni Buddha (Sakya Thukpa) and the future Buddha, Jampa or Maitreya
Location
Location	Sichuan, China
Country	China
	Location within China
Geographic coordinates	31°34′19″N 98°20′49″E / 31.572°N 98.347°E
Architecture
Style	The monastery has a notable design, with striped walls of white, dark red and gray, colors unique to the Sakya sect
Founder	Thang Tong Gyalpo (or Tangton Gyelpo), 1385-1464 CE
Date established	15th century

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Gonchen Monastery (Tibetan: དགོན་ཆེན་དགོན, Wylie: dogn chen dgon, ZYPY: Goinqên Goin^[1]), also known as Derge Monastery (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན, Wylie: sde dge dgon chen), is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of Kham.

^ 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 111. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.

[1] 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 111. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.

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Gonchen Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན Wylie transliteration: sde dge dgon chen Other transcriptions: Dege Gönchen Chinese transcription(s) Traditional: 更慶寺 Simplified: 更庆寺 Pinyin: Gèngqìng Sì

Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Sakya
Deity	Padmasambhava, Sakyamuni Buddha (Sakya Thukpa) and the future Buddha, Jampa or Maitreya
Location
Location	Sichuan, China
Country	China
Location within China
Geographic coordinates	31°34′19″N 98°20′49″E / 31.572°N 98.347°E / 31.572; 98.347
Architecture
Style	The monastery has a notable design, with striped walls of white, dark red and gray, colors unique to the Sakya sect
Founder	Thang Tong Gyalpo (or Tangton Gyelpo), 1385-1464 CE
Date established	15th century