Himalayan Art Resources

Details of 1097 (Labrang Monastery)

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Detail images of Labrang monastery cityscape painting with extensive inscriptions for each building and important locations.

Labrang Monastery, known as Ganden Shedrub Dargye Tashi Gyesu Kyilwa'i Ling, or the short form Labrang Tashi Kyil, was founded in 1709 by Jamyang Shepa Ngagwang Tsondru a native of Amdo. The monastery was considered to be one of the Six Great Monasteries of the Gelug Tradition in the 18th and 19th centuries and the largest in Amdo.

See the publications:

Labrang: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations. Paul Kocot Nietupski

Labrang Monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958 (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture). Paul Kocot Nietupski. Lexington Books, 2010.