Satho Ganden Trashi Chökhorling

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ས་ མཐོ་ དགའ་ ལྡན་ བཀྲ་ ཤིས་ ཆོས་ འཁོར་ གླིང་
Wylie transliteration :
sa mtho dga 'ldan bkra shis chos' khor gling
THDL transcription :
Sato Ganden Trashi Chökhorling
Other spellings:
Sato Kalden Tashi Chokhorling,
Satho Ganden
Chinese name
Simplified :
沙陀 寺
(沙托 寺 、 尕 旦 寺 、 扎西 群 科林)
Pinyin :
Shātuó Sì
(Shātuō Sì, Gǎdàn Sì, Zhāxī Qúnkēlín)

Satho Ganden Trashi Chökhorling or Shatuo Monastery is a monastery belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism in Gangca County, Haibei Autonomous District of Tibet in northeastern Qinghai Province, China . The monastery was founded in the Shunzhi era of the Qing Dynasty in 1665 and is located seven kilometers southwest of Quanji and one kilometer from Qinghai Lake (Kokonor). The 5th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatsho performed rituals associated with the water here.

The monastery is on the list of monuments of Qinghai Province .

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  1. Chinese 刚察 县; Pinyin : Gangcha Xian
  2. Quanji xiang 泉 吉 乡

Coordinates: 37 ° 12 ′ 49.3 "  N , 99 ° 50 ′ 49.9"  E