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Drepung Monastery (Tibetan: འབྲས་སྤུངས་; Wylie: 'Bras-spungs; ZWPY: Zhaibung) is one of the "great three" Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. The other two are Ganden and Sera. Drepung is the largest of all Tibetan monasteries, and indeed at its peak was the largest monastery of any religion in the world. It was founded in 1416 by Jamyang Chojey, a direct disciple of Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelukpa school. It is located on the Gambo Utse mountain, 5 kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. At its largest, before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, the monastery housed fifteen thousand celibate monks. It was known for the high standards of its academic study, and was called the "Nalanda" of Tibet, a reference to the great Buddhist monastic university of Nalanda. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x717, 210 KB) Photographer: Philipp Roelli (2005) File links The following pages link to this file: Drepung Monastery ...
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The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ...
The Peoples Republic of Chinas Tibetan Pinyin (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zà ngwén Pīnyīn; Tibetan: བོད་ཡིག་གི་སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་) is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China. ...
The Geluk (dge lugs) School was founded by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibets best known religious reformer and arguably its greatest philosopher. ...
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Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; pronounced in the Lhasa dialect; Chinese: ; pinyin: or Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: [the two names are used with different connotations; see Name section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ...
Ganden monastery Ganden Monastery is one of the great three Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet, located on Wangbur Mountain, Tagtse County, 47 kilometers from Lhasa. ...
Sera Monastery is one of the great three Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. ...
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Je Tsongkhapa (Tsong-kha-pa) in the fifth vison of Khedrub Jey (Mkhas-grub) Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་à½à¼‹à½”་; Wylie: Tsong-kha-pa) (1357 - 1419) , whose name means The Man from Onion Valley, was the founder of the Geluk (Dge-lugs) school of Tibetan Buddhism. ...
Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉è¨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: LÄsà ), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Remains at Nalanda Nalanda is a historical place in central Bihar, India, 90 km south-east of the state capital of Patna. ...
Drepung is divided into what are known as the seven great colleges - Gomang (sGo-mang), Loseling (Blo-gsal gling), Deyang (bDe-dbyangs), Shagkor (Shag-skor), Gyelwa (rGyal-ba) or Tosamling (Thos-bsam gling), Dulwa (‘Dul-ba), and Ngagpa (sNgags-pa). It can be a somewhat useful analogy to think of Drepung as a university along the lines of Oxford or the Sorbonne in the middle ages, the various colleges having different emphases, teaching lineages, or traditional geographical affiliations. Young Buddhist monks in Tibet. ...
Young Buddhist monks in Tibet. ...
Today the population at the monastery located in Tibet is much smaller with merely a few hundred monks, due to population capping enforced by the Chinese government. However the institution has continued its tradition in exile within South India, relocated to land in Karnataka given to the Tibetan community in exile by Prime Minister Nehru. The monastery in India today houses over five thousand celibate monks, with around 3,000 at Drepung Loseling and some 2,000 at Drepung Gomang. Hundreds of new monks are admitted each year, many of them refugees from Tibet. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1879x1493, 1143 KB) Main prayer hall within monastery Drepung, August 2005, self photographed, Rainer Haessner File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Drepung Monastery Metadata This file contains...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1879x1493, 1143 KB) Main prayer hall within monastery Drepung, August 2005, self photographed, Rainer Haessner File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Drepung Monastery Metadata This file contains...
KarnÄtakÄ (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ) (IPA: ) is one of the four southern states of India. ...
Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू) (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964), also called Pandit (Teacher) Nehru, was the leader of the (moderately) socialist wing of the Indian National Congress during and after Indias struggle for independence from the British...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1526x1490, 664 KB) High noon meeting of the monks within the main prayer hall of monastery Drepung; self photographed; August 2005, Rainer Haessner File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1526x1490, 664 KB) High noon meeting of the monks within the main prayer hall of monastery Drepung; self photographed; August 2005, Rainer Haessner File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are...
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