Gönlung Jampa Ling monastery

36°44′23.22″N 102°10′50.66″E / 36.7397833°N 102.1807389°E / 36.7397833; 102.1807389ArchitectureFounderGyeltse Donyo Chokyi GyatsoDate established1604

Gönlung Jampa Ling; Tibetan: དགོན་ལུང་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་།, Wylie: dgon lung byams pa gling; Chinese: 佑宁寺, pinyin:Yòuníng Sì ) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Gelug sect in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County of Qinghai province, China. The monastery was founded in 1604 by Gyeltse Donyo Chokyi Gyatso.^[1][2] Gönlung Jampa Ling housed the first Geluk seminary in Northeastern Tibet and was the seat if a number of important, high-ranking lamas including the Changkya and Thuken incarnation lineages.

Gonlung is one of four famous Tibetan monasteries (Chuzang, Serkhog, Jakhyung and Gonlung) in north-east Qinghai, earlier considered as a border area between Tibet and China.

In 1724 the monastery was destroyed by the Manchus during the suppression of Lhazang Khan^{[clarification needed]} (a Mongol Khoshut ruler, killed by Dzungars in 1717), but rebuilt in 1732.^[1]

Gallery

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  Front view of Gönlung Jampa Ling main temple
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  View of Gönlung Jampa Ling from above
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  View of Gönlung Jampa Ling west temple from the east

Sources

• Sullivan, Brenton (2013). The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet (Ph.D.). University of Virginia.^{[permanent dead link]}

References

External links

• Gonlung Jampaling Monastery
• Gönlung Jampa Ling - THL Place Dictionary