Gonchen Monastery | |
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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 | |
Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
Sect | Sakya |
Deity | Padmasambhava, Sakyamuni Buddha (Sakya Thukpa) and the future Buddha, Jampa or Maitreya |
Location | |
Location | Sichuan, China |
Country | China |
Geographic coordinates | 31°34′19″N 98°20′49″E / 31.572°N 98.347°E |
Architecture | |
Style | The monastery has a notable design, with striped walls of white, dark red and gray, colors unique to the Sakya sect |
Founder | Thang Tong Gyalpo (or Tangton Gyelpo), 1385-1464 CE |
Date established | 15th 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.