དགའ་ལྡན་ད་ཚང་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་གླིང ། 大 藏 隆 洲 林
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Introduction and overview
Ganden Datshang Lhundrup Ling, commonly known as Dhe-Tsang Monastery, is located next to Chunkou Village (春口村) in Datsang (Ch: Dazang) Township, Barkham (Ch: Ma’erkang) County, Ngawa (Aba) … [Read more...] about Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
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Palpung Chökhor Ling
དཔལ་སྤུངས་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
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Introduction
Palpung Gonpa (Ch: Babang Si 八邦寺) is located in a township of the same name, in Dege County in western Sichuan Province. The monastery complex is dominated by a four-story main temple, or chölhakhang set on a rocky … [Read more...] about Built Heritage on the Eastern Tibetan plateau:
Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)
(See Part 1 here) The monastery in 1949 Lithang Monastery was preparing to enter the second half of the 20th century with its finances in good order, probably thanks to effective management of assets such as herds, a prosperous local community, and alliances with other Gelug monasteries that … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 2)
Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)
Note to Readers Lithang Monastery is formally known as Ganden Thubchen Choekhorling. The original Tibetan is བྱམས་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྐོར་གླིང་། which is “ga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling” in Wylie transcription and 长青春科尔寺 (Changqingchun Ke’er Si) in simplified Chinese. It is also sometimes called … [Read more...] about Lithang Monastery: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal (Part 1)