Khorchag Gönpa

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
འཁོར་ ཆགས་ དགོན་པ་
Wylie transliteration :
'khor chags dgon pa
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Korqag goinba
THDL transcription :
Korchak gönpa
Other spellings:
Khorchag, Khorchak
Chinese name
Traditional :
科迦 寺
Simplified :
科迦 寺
Pinyin :
Kējiā Sì

Khorchag Gönpa (also Korqag monastery , Tibetan : འཁོར་ ཆགས་ དགོན་པ་ , inscription after Wylie : 'khor chags dgon pa ) is a Buddhist monastery ( Gönpa ) in the community of the same name in the south of Burang County (Purang) in the administrative district Ngari in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . The original buildings of the monastery , often known in the west under the Nepalese name "Khojarnath" (also: Kojarnath , Khorja Gompa ) date to the year 996. According to Tibetan tradition, it is by Rinchen Sangpo ( rin chen bzang po ; 958-1055), the great translator of the West Tibetan Kingdom of Guge .

The monastery has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-410) since 2001 .

See also

literature

  • Bruno J. Richtsfeld (edit., Ed.): Peter Aufschnaiter's postponed notes about his journey through northwestern Nepal to Khochar in Tibet in 1971 . Supplemented by Giuseppe Tucci's description of his visit to Khochar in 1935 and Swami Pranavânanda's description of the monastery of Khochar in 1939. In: Munich contributions to ethnology . Yearbook of the Museum für Völkerkunde München Volume 10, 2006, pp. 183–232. ISBN
  • Giuseppe Tucci : Santi e Briganti nel Tibet Ignoto. Diario della Spedizione nel Tibet Occidentale 1935 . Milan 1937.
  • Giuseppe Tucci: Tibet Ignoto (Club del libro Fratelli Melita: archeologia 11) . Rome 1987 (2nd edition).
  • Swami Pranavânanda: Exploration in Tibet . Calcutta 1939.
  • Charles A. Sherring: Western Tibet and the British Borderland. The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists . London 1906.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ incorrectly also “Korzhak”, “Khorzhak” ( འཁོར་ ཞགས་ ), z. B. in Gyurme Dorje: Tibet Handbook . Footprint, Bath 1999, ISBN 1-900949-33-4 , pp. 352f.

Coordinates: 30 ° 11 ′ 44 ″  N , 81 ° 16 ′ 4 ″  E