Yangpachen Monastery

Yangpachen Monastery
Dorje Ling Ani Gompa Nunnery, 2006
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Location
Location	Yangpachen, Tibet Autonomous Region
Country	China
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Geographic coordinates	29°59′33″N 90°24′48″E / 29.9924°N 90.4134°E / 29.9924; 90.4134
Architecture
Date established	1504

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Yangpachen Monastery (Chinese: 羊八井寺 Tibetan: tubten yangpachen, Wylie: thub bstan yangs pa can, ZYPY: ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཡངས་པ་ཅན) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yangpachen (Tibetan: yangs pa can; Thub btsan yangs pa can), in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet. It is historically the seat of the Shamarpas of Karma Kagyü. It is about 85 km (53 mi) southeast of Lhasa "on the northern side of the Lhorong Chu valley above the Lhasa-Shigatse highway."^[1]