Yangpachen Monastery

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : thub bstan yangs pa can
Official transcription of the PRCh : Thubdain Yangbajain
Other spellings: Tupten Yangpachen, Tudeng Yangbajing
Chinese name
Simplified : 羊八井 寺, 土 登 羊八井
Pinyin : Yángbājǐng Sì, Tǔdēng Yángbājǐng

The Yangpachen Monastery or Thubten Yangpachen is a major monastery of the Karma Kagyu -School of Tibetan Buddhism in the for its thermal springs famous place Yangbajain the circle Damxung of Lhasa in Tibet , China .

The monastery was founded in 1490 and is the seat of the Sharmapas , an important Trülku line of the Karma Kagyu school.

literature

• Gyurme Dorje: Tibet handbook . (Tupten Yangpachen Monastery) ISBN 9781900949330
• Keith Dowman: The power-places of Central Tibet: the pilgrim's guide . (Tupten Yangpachen) ISBN 9780710213709
• Joachim G. Karsten (Bonn): “ On the Monastic Archives of Kun-bde gling, Lhasa, Including a Preliminary Analytical Historical Study of the Monastery Itself (1794-1959 / 2000) ” (dtab.uni-bonn.de)

Web links

• Karma Kagya Tradition - English
• The Power Places of Central Tibet - English
• Yangbajing - Chinese

References and footnotes

1. ^ Gyurme Dorje, p. 142.

Yangpachen Monastery (alternative names of the lemma)
yangs pa can dgon pa, yangs pa can dgon

Coordinates: 29 ° 59 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 90 ° 24 ′ 48.2 ″  E