Monasteries in Garze

Gonchen (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 T ...

Baili Monastery (白利寺), officially named Bairi Lizhongsheng Xiang Monastery (白日利众生祥寺), meaning “Qinggang Mountain Auspicious Land Benefiting All Beings,” is located in Shengkang Township (生康乡), Ganzi County (甘孜县), Ganzi Tibetan...

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...

Kandze Monastery, also known as Ganzi Monastery (甘孜寺) or Garze Gompa, is a significant Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州) of Sichuan Province (四川省),...

Dajin Temple (大金寺), known in Tibetan as “The Prosperous and Auspicious Land,” belongs to the Gelug (格鲁派, Yellow Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Kagong Township (卡攻乡),...

Tongkor Monastery, also known as Ganden Chokhorling (甘丹错佛林) or Dangar Gompa (当噶寺), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Zithang Town (梭塘镇), Garzê County (甘孜县), Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture...

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...

Dzongsar Monastery, also known as Dzongsar Gonpa (རྫོང་གསར་དགོན།) in Tibetan, is a historic Buddhist monastery located in Dege County (德格县), Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜州), Sichuan Province (四川省), China....