Rongbuk Monastery

Rongbuk Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་
Wylie transliteration: rdza rong phu dgon
Mount Everest as seen from the Rongbuk Monastery
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectNyingma
Location
LocationBasum Township
CountryChina
Rongbuk Monastery is located in Tibet
Rongbuk Monastery
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Geographic coordinates28°11′47″N 86°49′40″E / 28.19639°N 86.82778°E / 28.19639; 86.82778
Architecture
FounderNgawang Tenzin Norbu
Date established1902
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Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (simplified Chinese: 绒布寺; traditional Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu[1] or Dzarong[citation needed], is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township,[2] Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.

  1. ^ "Rongphuk Monastery and the Everest Region". www.colorado.edu. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  2. ^ Tibetan in Wylie transliteration: dpa’ gsum; simplified Chinese: 巴松乡; traditional Chinese: 巴松鄉; pinyin: Bāsōng Xiàng