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Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery

Coordinates: 36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E / 36.7397833; 102.1807389
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Gönlung Jampa Ling
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: དགོན་ལུང་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་།
Wylie transliteration: dgon lung byams pa gling
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectGelug
Location
CountryChina
Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery is located in China
Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery
Location within China
Geographic coordinates36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E / 36.7397833; 102.1807389
Architecture
FounderGyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso
Date established1604

Gönlung Jampa Ling; Tibetan: དགོན་ལུང་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་།, Wylie: dgon lung byams pa gling; Chinese: 佑宁寺, pinyin:Yòuníng Sì ) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Gelug sect in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County of Qinghai province, China. The monastery was founded in 1604 by Gyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso.[1][2] Gönlung Jampa Ling housed the first Geluk seminary in Northeastern Tibet and was the seat if a number of important, high-ranking lamas including the Changkya and Thuken incarnation lineages.

Gonlung is one of four famous Tibetan monasteries (Chuzang, Serkhog, Jakhyung and Gonlung) in north-east Qinghai, earlier considered as a border area between Tibet and China.

In 1724 the monastery was destroyed by the Manchus during the suppression of Lhazang Khan[clarification needed] (a Mongol Khoshut ruler, killed by Dzungars in 1717), but rebuilt in 1732.[1]

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Sources

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  • Sullivan, Brenton (2013). The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet (Ph.D.). University of Virginia.[permanent dead link]

References

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  1. ^ a b Dorje, Gyurme (2004). Footprint Tibet (3 ed.). Bath: Footprint. pp. 581–2. ISBN 1-903471-30-3.
  2. ^ "dgon lung dgon pa". Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
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