| Menri | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Bon |
| Year consecrated | 1405 |
| Location | |
| Location | Namling County, Tibet Autonomous Region |
  Location within people's Republic of China  Menri Monastery (China) | |
| Geographic coordinates | 29°30′32″N 89°32′06″E / 29.509°N 89.535°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Nyamme Shérap Gyeltsen (Wylie: mnyam med shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1356–1416) |
| Menri Monastery | |||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||
| Tibetan | སྨན་རི་ | ||||
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Menri Monastery (Tibetan: སྨན་རི་, Wylie: sman ri — "medicine mountain") is the name of a Bon monastery in Tibet that has been refounded in India. The name derives from the medicinal plants and medicinal springs on the mountain.[1] Menri became the leading Bon monastery in the Tibetan cultural region. The abbot of Menri is recognized as the spiritual leader of Bon.
- ^ Berzin, Alexander (1991). "A Brief History of Menri Monastery". Study Buddhism. Retrieved 2016-06-06.