Rongbuk Monastery

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
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Location
Location	Basum Township
Country	China
	Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Geographic coordinates	28°11′47″N 86°49′40″E
Architecture
Founder	Ngawang Tenzin Norbu
Date established	1902

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 or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.

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