Nanwu Si Monastery

Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sichuan, China
30°2′29″N 101°57′17″E / 30.04139°N 101.95472°E / 30.04139; 101.95472

Namosi Monastery (Chinese: 南无寺; pinyin: Nāmó Sì; Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་རྩེ་དགོན, Wylie: lha mo rtse dgon[1]), also transliterated as Lhamotse Monastery, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery west of the town of Kangding in Kangding County of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan Province, southwestern China.

The complex of traditional architecture is located in the historical Tibetan region of Kham. The monastery is home to about 80 Buddhist monks.

See also

  • Tibetan Buddhism

References

  1. ^ 陈观胜; 安才旦 (April 2004). 《常见藏语人名地名词典》 (in Simplified Chinese) (1 ed.). Beijing: 外文出版社 [Foreign Languages Press]. p. 218. ISBN 7-119-03497-9.
  • Lonely Planet — Nanwu Si Monastery

External links

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