Samding
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Wylie transliteration : bsam lding dgon
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Samding
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THDL transcription : Samding
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Other spellings: -
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Traditional :
桑丁 寺 、 桑 頂 寺
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Simplified :
桑丁 寺 、 桑 顶 寺
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Pinyin : Sāngdīng Sì,
Sāngdǐng Sì |
Samding ( Tib. Bsam lding dgon ) is a monastery of the Bodong School , a sub -school of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism , in Nagarzê (Nakartse) County in Shannan Governorate (Lhokha) of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China , east of the seat of the County government and near the west bank of Lake Yardrog Yutsho .
Samding was probably founded towards the end of the 13th century and was the only Tibetan monastery with a female reincarnated abbess, the Samding Dorje Phagmo . During the Cultural Revolution , the monastery was completely destroyed, and in 1985 reconstruction began. In the mid-1990s, around 50 nuns lived in Samding.
The Samding Monastery inspired Lionel Davidson to write his 1962 novel The rose of Tibet (German: The Rose of Tibet ). Inside there is a fictional monastery called Yamdring, whose name merges that of the real monastery and that of the nearby lake.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.tibetmusic.org about Samding (English) ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ tib .: yar 'brog g.yu mtsho ; Chinese Yángzhuó Yōngcuò羊卓雍錯
Web links
Coordinates: 28 ° 58 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 90 ° 28 ′ 23.6 ″ E