Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery

Gönlung Jampa Ling
Basic information
Geographic coordinates 36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E / 36.7397833; 102.1807389Coordinates: 36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E / 36.7397833; 102.1807389
Sect Gelug
Founder Gyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso

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 Gonlung 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, but rebuilt in 1732.[1]

Sources

  • 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.

References

  1. 1 2 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 2014-07-19.


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