Exterior of the Gyantse Kumbum

Artwork on the exterior of the Kumbum in Gyantse

A Kumbum (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་; Wylie: Sku-'bum) is a multi-storied aggregate of Buddhist chapels in Tibet. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (782x1024, 160 KB) Photographer: Philipp Roelli (2005) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Kumbum Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (782x1024, 160 KB) Photographer: Philipp Roelli (2005) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Kumbum Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 421 pixel Image in higher resolution (2588 × 1362 pixel, file size: 155 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photographed by Mark Evans in November 2005 with a Nikon Coolpix 5200. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 421 pixel Image in higher resolution (2588 × 1362 pixel, file size: 155 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photographed by Mark Evans in November 2005 with a Nikon Coolpix 5200. ... Gyantse Fortress A view of Gyantse from the top of its fortress Gyantse (also spelled Gyangtse; Wylie: Rgyang-rtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་) is the third largest town in Tibet. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Anthem: Tibetan National Anthem Capital (and largest city) Lhasa Official languages Tibetan Government Government in exile  - Head of State His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso  - Head of Government Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche Occupied by Peoples Republic of China  Area  - Total 2. ...

Only three Kumbums are said to exist. The best known is the Gyantse Kumbum. A further Kumbum is at Kumbum Monastery (Ta'er Si) near Xining in modern Qinghai province in China (formerly near the border of the now defunct Tibetan province of Amdo). Concecrated in 1436AD, this structure contains 108 chapels in its four floors, and is illustrated with over 10,000 murals. Gyantse Fortress A view of Gyantse from the top of its fortress Gyantse (also spelled Gyangtse; Wylie: Rgyang-rtse; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་) is the third largest town in Tibet. ... Location of Xining Xining (Simplified Chinese : 西宁, Traditional Chinese : 西寧, Tibetan : Ziling) is the capital of Qinghai Province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai; Tibetan: མཚོ་སྔོན་ mtsho-sngon; Mongolian: Köke Naγur; Manchu: Huhu Noor) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. ... Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ༌མདོ, Chinese: 安多, Pinyin: Ä€nduō) is considered the northern part of Tibet by Tibetans and is the place from where the present Dalai Lama comes from. ... 108 is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109. ...

The Kumbum at Gyantse is a three dimensional mandala, meant to portray the Buddhist cosmos. The Kumbum, like other mandalas, which are portrayed by a circle within a square, enables the devotee to take part in the Buddhist perception of the universe and can depict one's potential as they move through it. Mandalas are meant to aid an individual on the path to enlightenment. The Kumbum holds a vast number of images of deities throughout its structure with Vhajra Dhara, the cosmic Buddha, at the top.