Gonchen Monastery

Gonchen Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན
Wylie transliteration: sde dge dgon chen
Other transcriptions: Dege Gönchen
Chinese transcription(s)
Traditional: 更慶寺
Simplified: 更庆寺
Pinyin: Gèngqìng Sì
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectSakya
DeityPadmasambhava, Sakyamuni Buddha (Sakya Thukpa) and the future Buddha, Jampa or Maitreya
Location
LocationSichuan, China
CountryChina
Gonchen Monastery is located in China
Gonchen Monastery
Location within China
Geographic coordinates31°34′19″N 98°20′49″E / 31.572°N 98.347°E / 31.572; 98.347
Architecture
StyleThe monastery has a notable design, with striped walls of white, dark red and gray, colors unique to the Sakya sect
FounderThang Tong Gyalpo (or Tangton Gyelpo), 1385-1464 CE
Date established15th century
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Gonchen Monastery (Tibetan: དགོན་ཆེན་དགོན, Wylie: dogn chen dgon, ZYPY: Goinqên Goin[1]), also known as Derge Monastery (Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན, Wylie: sde dge dgon chen), 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.

  1. ^ 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 111. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.