Dratshang Monastery

The Dratshang Monastery or Dratshang Gon Ganden Choekhorling ( Tib. : Grva tshang dgon dga 'ldan chos' khor gling ) is a monastery of the Gelug -School of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ) in the district of Huang Yuan (. Tib Tongkhor) of the prefecture-level city Xining ( tib. Ziling), the capital of the Chinese province of Qinghai . It is located in Xiasi Village of Bazang Township. The monastery was founded in 1637 on an old Buddhist site that, according to tradition, dates back to the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is one of the early Kokonor area monasteries in the western area of Tsongkha .

The monastery has been on the Qinghai Province Monuments List since 1998 .

See also

• Gönlung Champa Ling
• Chusang Namgyel Peljor
• Tongkhor Gompa
• Chechen Nomonhan

literature

• Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou 2003

Web links

• Qiannian gu si - Zhazang si - Chinese
• Huangyuan xian Zhazang si Zangjia le fengqing yuan zhaosang xiangmu - Chinese
• Qinghai Fojiao shi - Chinese
• Zhazang si - Chinese

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Chin. Zhazang Si 扎 藏寺
2. ↑ Chinese   湟源县
3. ↑ Chinese Xiasicun 下 寺村
4. ↑ Chinese 巴 燕 乡
5. ↑ Chin. Chechen nuomenhan 车臣 诺 们 汗

Dratshang Monastery (alternative names of the lemma)
Dratshang Gön; grva tshang dgon dga 'ldan chos' khor gling, Zhazang Si 扎 藏寺, 札 藏寺, Dratsang Monastery, Dratsang Gon Ganden Chokhorling

Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′ 47 "  N , 101 ° 8 ′ 24"  E