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Ganden Sumtsenling

The largest monastery in Yunnan Province, this Gelukpa monastic university in the Gyeltang cultural region of southern Kham is organized around eight regional houses (khamtsen) on the model of the large Gelukpa monastic universities of Sera, Drepung, and Ganden.

Feature Type

Gyaltang Sumtseling Gönpa

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  • Buddhism > Geluk
  • Tibetan Event > Founding: by Fifth Dalai Lama (1679)
  • དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Ganden Sumtsenling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • > dga' ldan sum rtsen gling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > རྒྱལ་ཐང་ཆོས་སྡེ་དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
      • > Gyeltang Chödé Ganden Sumtsenling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > rgyal thang chos sde dga' ldan sum rtsen gling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > 噶丹松贊林 (Tibetan, Traditional Chinese Characters, Transcription-Tibetan-to-Chinese Transcription)
      • > Gadan Songzanlin  (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-Pinyin Transcription)
      • > 噶丹松赞林 (Tibetan, Simplified Chinese Characters, Transliteration-Traditional-to-Simplified Chinese Transliteration)
    • > སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Contraction)
      • > Sumtsenling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > sum rtsen gling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • > 松贊林寺 (Tibetan, Traditional Chinese Characters, Transcription-Tibetan-to-Chinese Transcription)
        • > Songzanlin si (Chinese, Latin script, Transcription-Pinyin Transcription)
        • > 松赞林寺 (Tibetan, Simplified Chinese Characters, Transliteration-Traditional-to-Simplified Chinese Transliteration)
    • > དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་བཙན་གླིང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Variant Spelling)
      • > Ganden Sumtsenling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > dga' ldan sum btsan gling (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)

Place ID: F134686

Latitude: 27.863333; Longitude: 99.704167

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