Uru Katshel

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
དབུ་ རུ་ ཀ་ ཚལ །
Wylie transliteration :
dbu ru ka tshal
Other spellings:
Uru Katshal, Katsel
Chinese name
Traditional :
嘎 則 寺
Simplified :
嘎 则 寺
Pinyin :
Gázé sì

Uru Katshel ( Tib .: dbu ru ka tshal ) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Maizhokunggar County (Meldro Gongkar) ( sometimes gro gung dkar rdzong ) in the Lhasa District in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It is located around 80 kilometers northeast of the city center of Lhasa at the confluence of the Maizhoma Chu ( sometimes gro ma chu ) in the Lhasa He River .

Founding legend

Uru Katshel is a monastery dating back to one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Tibet. It is said to have been built in the 7th century under Songtsen Gampo as one of a total of twelve geomantic ( Feng Shui ) temples called "Thadül" (tib .: mtha '' dul ) and "Yangdül" (tib .: yang 'dul ) whom the giant demon Sinmo (Tib .: srin mo ) should be tamed. Uru Katshel stood here on Sinmos right shoulder, Thradrug in Nêdong Dzong on her left shoulder and the Jokhang in Lhasa on her heart.

In the 14th century, the old temple of Drigung Bama Rinpoche Phüntsog (tib .: 'bri gung ba ma rin po che phun tshogs ) was integrated into a monastery of the Drigung-Kagyüpa (tib .: ' bri gung bka 'brgyud pa ). transformed.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Temple and monastery of Uru Katshal
  2. ↑ Alex McKay: The History of Tibet (RoutledgeCourzon 2003), ISBN 0-700-71508-8 , p. 340 f.
  3. ↑ ka tshal dgon (times gro gung dkar rdzong)

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Uru Katshel (alternative names of the lemma)
dbu ru bka 'tshal, Katsel, Katsel Gompa, Gaze si 嘎 则 寺, Gacai si 噶 蔡 寺, Buru Gacai si 布 如 噶 采 寺, Katshel Monastery, Katse Gompa

Coordinates: 29 ° 51 ′ 53 "  N , 91 ° 45 ′ 21.6"  E