Rinchenpung Monastery
The Rinchenpung Monastery or Rinchenpung Gompa is a monastery of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism in Pemakö ( padma bkod ). It is located in the Zhumo Valley in Mêdog (Metog) County , Nyingchi Governorate , Tibet , upstream from the confluence of the river with the Brahmaputra . In the monastery there is a sacred image of the deity Hayagriva . In the Metog earthquake (or Assam earthquake ) in 1950 it was destroyed and later rebuilt.
literature
- Gyurme Dorje : Footprint Tibet Handbook
- Hamid Sardar-Afkhami (Harvard University): " An Account of Padma-Bkod: A Hidden Land in Southeastern Tibet "; Kailash - Journal of Himalayan Studies; Volume 18, Number 3 and 4, 1996
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References and footnotes
- ↑ Chin. Renqinbeng si 仁钦 崩 寺; Renqingbeng si 仁 青 崩 寺
| Rinchenpung Monastery (alternative names of the lemma) |
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| Rinchenpong Gompa; 墨脱 县 仁钦 崩 寺; Renqingbeng si 仁 青 崩 寺; Rinchenpung Monastery; Rinchen Pung Monastery; 仁钦 崩 寺 （墨脱）; ren qin peng si; 仁钦 朋 寺; Renqenpeng Monastery |
Coordinates: 29 ° 17 ′ 46.2 " N , 95 ° 20 ′ 35.7" E