Gimpil Dardjaalan Chiid
Gimpil Dardschaalan Chiid ( Mongolian Гимпил Даржаалан Хийд ) is a Buddhist monastery in the district town of Erdenedalai in the district of the same name ( Sum ) in the Mongolian province ( Aimag ) Dund-Gobi . The Mongolian word Chiid means "monastery".
location
The monastery is located in the center of Erdenedalai in an arid , flat landscape, 109 km west of the Aimag capital Mandalgobi and 369 km south-southwest of Ulaanbaatar , the capital of Mongolia in the western part of the Aimag Dundgov.
history
The Gimpil Dardjaalan Chiid Monastery was built towards the end of the 18th century to commemorate the first visit of a Dalai Lama to Mongolia. At times up to 500 monks lived in it.
As one of the few Buddhist monasteries and temples, it survived the Stalinist terror in Mongolia in the 1930s. From 1937 onwards, the monastery was used as a warehouse, but the buildings remained untouched.
Since 1990 it has been used again as a monastery or temple. In 1992 the 14th Dalai Lama visited the facility.
Plant and structures
The relatively small monastery Gimpil Dardjaalan Khiid is an extraordinary, if little-known attraction in the province of Dundgov, as it is one of a group of only half a dozen monasteries or temples that have been preserved intact from the time before the Mongolian People's Republic other monasteries - in 1936 there were 747 monasteries in Mongolia - or temples in Mongolia fell victim to the destruction of 1937.
In the middle of the monastery complex, the square-shaped temple rises up on a base made of rubble stones. In stark contrast to most of the other temples in Mongolia - especially those rebuilt after 1990 - it is not covered with green or red, but with gray roof tiles. Inside there is a statue of the founder of a special branch of Buddhism in Mongolia, Tsongkapa, among other things.
In front of the temple are the prayer wheels common in Tibetan Buddhism and a small white stupa . Another, considerably larger stupa is located a little away from the temple not far from the monks' living quarters behind a yurt .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 104 ° 56 ′ 59.1 ″ E