Tibet Autonomous Region, China · Tradition
Buddhism sacred sites in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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Drak Yerpa
Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Drak Yerpa is a limestone cliff amphitheater northeast of Lhasa containing 108 meditation caves sanctified by twelve centuries of contemplative practice....
Ganden Monastery
Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Ganden Monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa in 1409 on a mountain ridge east of Lhasa, is the mother monastery of the Gelug school — the largest institution in Tibetan...
Jokhang Temple
Chengguan District, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
For nearly fourteen hundred years, Jokhang Temple has stood at the center of Tibetan Buddhism, housing what is believed to be the most sacred Buddha image in existence....
Lake Nam Tso
Baingoin County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Lake Nam Tso sits at 4,718 meters on the Tibetan plateau, one of the highest large lakes in the world and one of the three holiest in Tibet....
Lake Yamzho Yumco
Ngarzhag, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Lake Yamzho Yumco — Yamdrok — is one of Tibet's three holiest lakes and the one most charged with existential meaning....
Mt. Meili Xue
Zogang County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Kawagebo, the 6,740-meter summit of the Meili Snow Mountains on the Yunnan-Tibet border, is the highest unclimbed peak over 6,000 meters in the world....
Mt. Targo and Lake Dangra
Targo, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Dangra Yumco and Dargo Mountain form a sacred married couple in the Bon tradition, Tibet's pre-Buddhist indigenous religion....
Potala Palace
Chengguan District, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
The Potala Palace rises 117 meters above the Lhasa Valley on the Red Hill, named for Avalokiteshvara's mythical abode, Mount Potalaka....
Sakya
Tashigang, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Sakya Monastery is the seat of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, one of the four major schools, founded in 1073 by the Khon family, who trace their ancestry to...
Samye
Samye, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Samye is where Buddhism became institutionally rooted in Tibet, the place where a religion became a civilization....
Tashilhunpo
城西街道, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Tashilhunpo Monastery rises from the slopes of Niseri Hill in Shigatse, a 37-acre compound of gilded rooftops and whitewashed walls that has served as the seat of the...
Toling
Tsamda County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Toling Monastery stands in the surreal Zanda Earth Forest of western Tibet, nearly 1,200 kilometers from Lhasa....
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