Qutan monastery

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : གྲོ་ ཚང་ ལྷ་ཁང་ གཽ་ ཏམ་ སྡེ ། གྲོ་ ཚང་ དགོན་ པ ། གྲོ་ ཚང་ རྡོ་ རྗེ་ འཆང །
Wylie transliteration : gro tshang lha khang gō tam sde, gro tshang dgon pa, gro tshang rdo rje 'chang
Pronunciation in IPA : [ ʈʂʰotsʰaŋ ɬakʰaŋ kotamte], [ʈʂʰotsʰaŋ kø̃pa], [ʈʂʰotsʰaŋ toːtɕetɕʰaŋ ]
Official transcription of the PRCh : Chocang Lhakang Godamde, Chocang Goinba, Chocang Dorjêqang
THDL transcription : Drotsang Lhakhang Gotamde, Drotsang Gönpa, Drotsang Dorjechang
Other spellings: Drotsang Gonpa
Chinese name
Traditional : 瞿曇 寺
Simplified : 瞿昙 寺
Pinyin : Qútán Sì

In the Qutan Si monastery

The Qutan Monastery , Gautama Monastery or Drotsang Gonpa in Ledu County , Haidong Administrative Region , Qinghai , People's Republic of China , is a Tibetan monastery, it is located about 70 km southeast of Xining and 21 km south of the county town of Ledu. It was built during the Ming Dynasty and looks like a miniature complex of the Imperial Palace in Beijing. The oldest hall dates back to 1392. This means that it is not only an important Sino-Tibetan Buddhist architecture complex in northwest China, but also represents the oldest surviving monastery complex in Amdo .

Wall paintings in the Qutan Monastery

Since 1982 the monastery and especially the very well preserved wall paintings up to 600 years old have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Qinghai (2-34).

literature

• Qutan Monastery. In: Andreas Gruschke : The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo. Volume 1: The Qinghai Part of Amdo. White Lotus Press, Bangkok 2001, ISBN 974-7534-59-2 , pp. 27-31.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Gruschke 2001, p. 28

Coordinates: 36 ° 21 ′ 18 ″  N , 102 ° 17 ′ 46 ″  E