Monasteries in Garze

onchen (also known as Derge Monastery) is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located in the ethnic Tibetan cultural region of Kham. Description The main chapel of the monastery is...

Katok Monastery (Tibetan: ཀཿ་ཐོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་, THL Katok Dorjé Den/甘孜州白玉县噶陀寺), also transliterated as Kathok or Kathog Monastery, was founded in 1159 and is one of the “Six Mother Monasteries” in Tibet of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, built after Samye Monastery. It is located in...

Baili Monastery (甘孜县生康乡白利寺) was built in 1662 AD. It is located in Shengkang Township, about 10 kilometers west of Garze County, at the mountainside on the north bank of...

Degongbo Monastery(德贡波寺) or Hanren Monastery(甘孜县甘孜镇汉人寺) is located Garze Town of Garze County, Garze, Sichuan Province. Degongbo, also named as Hanren Monastery, first built in 1274 AD, has a history...

Sangzhusi Monastery (甘孜县扎科乡桑珠寺) is located in Zhake Town of Garze County, Garze of Sichuan. Sangzhu Temple is said to be the last of the 13 Yellow temples in Hall...

甘孜县甘孜寺Kandze Monastery in Garze County, Garze Kandze Monastery (also Ganzi or Garze Monastery or Gompa) is situated 2 km north of Garzê Town on a hilltop overlooking the town, in Tibet. History The monastery was built c. 1642 CE by...

Dajinsi Monastery in Garze County, Garze甘孜县卡攻乡大金寺...

甘孜县四通达乡东谷寺Tongkor Monastery (also known as Ganden Chokhorling and Dangar Gompa) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Zithang Town, Garzê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. History The monastery was founded by Tongkor I, Dawa Gyaltsen, in the 15th century....

Sangpiling Monastery(乡城县噶丹桑披罗布岭寺/桑披岭寺) is located in Xiangcheng County, Garze of Sichuan. Sangpiling Monastery or Gadang Sangpo Luobuling Monastery, commonly known as Sangpiling Temple, “Kadan” means the inheritance of the name...

Tsatsa Gompa/Dzongsar Monastery(德格县仲萨寺/宗萨寺) is located in Dege County, Garze of Sichuan Province. Dzongsar Monastery (Standard Tibetan: རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།) is a Buddhist monastery in Dêgê County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous...