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Menying Khangkhung

Meru Khangkhung (rme ru khang khungs) is a building off the southeast corner of Meru Nyingpa (rme ru rnying pa) in Lhasa's Barkor area formerly owned by Sera (se ra) monastery and Purbuchok Ngawang Jampa (phur bu lcog ngag dbang byams pa, 1682-1762). According to the Tibet Heritage Fund, some of the building's foundations probably date to before the seventeenth century. The building was owned by Sera monastery until the eighteenth century when it was bought by Purbuchok Ngawang Jampa to serve as a residence for him.

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  • རྨེ་རྙིང་ཁང་ཁུངས། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > rme rnying khang khungs (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Menying Khangkhung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • > རྨེ་རུ་རྙིང་པ་ཁང་ཁུངས། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
      • > rme ru rnying pa khang khungs (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • > Meru Nyingpa Khangkhung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
  • སྟར་སྡོང་ཤག (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > star sdong shag (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Tardong Shak (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • > Tadongshar (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-Tibet Heritage Fund System of Tibetan Transcription)
  • ལྟ་སྡོང་ཤག (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > lta sdong shag (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Tadong Shak (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)

Place ID: F26546

Aufschnaiter Lhasa Map ID: ka 28

Tibet Heritage Fund Lhasa Building ID: 15

Lhasa Atlas ID: 22

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