Rongwo Gompa

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : རོང་ བོའ ི་ དགོན་ ཆེན
Wylie transliteration : rong bo'i dgon chen
Other spellings: Rongwo Gönchen

The Longwu convent or rongwo monastery or Rongwo Gönchen ( Chinese  隆务寺 , Pinyin Longwu sì ; Tibet Rong bo dgon pa.) In the large village Rongwo (Ch Longwu隆务镇.) In a circle Tongren of autonomous prefecture Huangnan Tibetan in in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai is a monastery of the Gelug School, the youngest of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ). It was founded in 1301 during the Mongol dynasty . The current buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The monastery has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (4-187) since 1996 .

Monastic culture

The Rongwo Gönchen (Chin. Longwu Si ), founded in 1301 as the Sakyapa Monastery, was a determining political factor in the region from the 14th to the 20th century. This makes it one of the oldest still active monasteries in Amdo. At the turn of the 16th to the 17th century, when the Gelugpa gained increasing influence after the meeting of Sonam Gyatso , the first so-called Dalai Lama , later counted as 3rd , with the Inner Mongolian prince Altan Khan , Rongwo became their patron School direction taken over.

Web links

• Chortens in Amdo: A Photographic Album - English

Coordinates: 35 ° 30 ′ 32 ″  N , 102 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  E