Kirti Gompa

Kirti Gompa
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: ཀི་རྟི་དགོན་པ།
Kirti Gompa or Gerdeng Monastery.
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectGelugpa
LeadershipTwelfth Kirti Tsenzhab Rinpoche
Location
LocationNgawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China, known as Kham.
CountryChina
Kirti Gompa is located in Sichuan
Kirti Gompa
Location within Sichuan
Geographic coordinates32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E / 32.900; 101.700
Architecture
FounderRongpa Chenakpa
Date established1472
The great stupa at Kirti Monastery, Ngawa, Sichuan

Kirti Gompa (Tibetan: ཀི་རྟི་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: ki rti dgon pa), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries and nunneries are located nearby. As of March 2011, the Kirti Gompa was said to house 2,500 monks. Between 2008 and 2011, mass arrests and patriotic re-education programs by Chinese authorities have targeted the monks, reducing the population substantially to 600 monks.[1] The wave of Tibetan self-immolations began at Kirti Gompa.

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