Guandi Temple of Lhasa
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Tibetan script :
ཀོན་ ཏི་ གེ་ སར་ ལྷ་ཁང་
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Wylie transliteration : kon ti ge sar lha khang
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Simplified :
关帝庙 、 关 帝 格萨拉康
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Pinyin : Guāndì Miào, Guāndì Gésà Lākāng
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The Guandi Temple or Gesar Temple in Lhasa is the only surviving temple in Tibet that is dedicated to Guan Yu , a Chinese general of the Three Kingdoms who is worshiped as the god of war under the name of "Guandi". It is located in the southwest of the Potala Palace on the Pamari Shan ( 帕玛 日 山 ), which is also called Mopan Shan ( 磨盘山 ).
history
The Guandi Temple was built in 1792 in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) on Mopan Shan ("Millstone Mountain") in Lhasa to celebrate the victory over the Gurkhas from Nepal . That year the Gurkhas invaded Tibet and took Tashilhunpo Monastery. When Emperor Qianlong found out about this, he ordered General Fu Kang'an (福康安) with an army of 10,000 soldiers to go to Tibet, who with the help of the inhabitants drove the Gurkhas out of Tibet for good.
Over time, the Tibetans also associated the temple with the legendary warrior king Gesar of Ling .
In 2007, the temple was renovated by the Tibet Autonomous Region Bureau of Cultural Objects for 4.2 million yuan.
The temple is on the list of monuments of the Tibet Autonomous Region .
See also
Web links
- Lhasa Guandi miao weixiu jinzhan shunli - Chinese
- Relics unveiled to public after renovation - English
- Lasa jietou jianwen zhiyi: Guandi miao - Chinese (Photos)
- Guan Yu Temple on the Mopan Mountain in Tibet - English
- Xizang gaoyuan Guandi miao - Chinese
- Zhu Zhengming: He Looking for the Guangong Culture in the World - English
Footnotes
- ↑ a b ལྷ་ སའི་ ཀོན་ ཏི་ གེ་ སར་ ལྷ་ཁང་ བཟོ་ སྐྲུན་ ལེགས་ གྲུབ་ ཟིན་ པ ། ཀྲུང་ གོའ ི་ བོད་ ལྗོངས་ དྲ་ བར་, September 20, 2012.
- ↑ http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200801/t20080116_339449.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4ea0ae21010085zs.html
- ↑ http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200801/t20080116_339449.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Emily T. Yeh: Living Together in Lhasa. In: Shail Mayaram (ed.): The Other Global City . New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 54-85, here pp. 60-61.
- ↑ http://eng.tibet.cn/news/today/200801/t20080116_339449.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 29 ° 39 '22 " N , 91 ° 6' 23.7" E