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Drepung Monastery

Feature Type

Large Monastery

The northeast corner of the monastery.

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Names

འབྲས་སྤུངས། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > Drepung (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
- > 'bras spungs (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
  - > Drepung Monastery (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
  - > Drepung Gön (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
  - > 'bras spungs dgon (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
  - > བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
    - > Trashi Penden Drepung Gön (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    - > bkra shis dpal ldan 'bras spungs dgon (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    - > དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲས་སྤུངས་དགོན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Contraction)
      - > Penden Drepung Gön (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      - > dpal ldan 'bras spungs dgon (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)

Etymology for འབྲས་སྤུངས།:: Literally, "rice-heap", it is named after its visual appearance from an array of buildings at the foot of the mountain.

IDs

Place ID: F15468

GB Code - Ryavec: 540101128

Location

ST_MultiPolygon (2010)

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