Labrang Monastery

Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil; Chinese: Lābǔléng Sì, 拉卜楞寺) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling (Tibetan: དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།, Wylie: dge ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis gyas su 'khyil ba'i gling).

Labrang Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་
Wylie transliteration: bla brang bkra shis 'khyil
Official transcription (China): 拉卜楞寺
THL: Labrang Trashi Khyil
Overview of the Labrang Monastery
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectGelug
FestivalsJanuary 4–17
June 26 – July 15
Location
LocationGansu Province
CountryChina
Location within China
Geographic coordinates35°11′44″N 102°30′29″E
Architecture
FounderNgawang Tsondru
Date established1709

Labrang is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is about four hours by car from the provincial capital Lanzhou.

In the early part of the 20th century, Labrang was by far the largest and most influential monastery in Amdo. It is located on the Daxia River, a tributary of the Yellow River.

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