This temple is more than 1300 years old and built by the Chinese Princess Wen Cheng who married the famous Tibetan King – Tsongtsen Gampo in the 7th Century A.D. She brought with her the famous Sakyamuni statue and is still venerated today at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. Both …
Read More »Achuang Namdzong ཨ་ཆུང་གནམ་རྫོང་།
Achung Namdzong is revered as one of the 25 important power places of Kham and Amdo, specifically symbolizing the mind aspect of Buddha mind. During persecution of Buddhism in Central Tibet by the last king of Tibet, the three high scholars fled from Lhasa to Amdo and stayed in the …
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The famous Iayuguan Pass or Jiayuguan Fortress is the west start point of China’s Great Wall. At the base of Jiayu Mountain Situates the legendary Jiayuguan Pass known as the most strategic point along the ancient Silk Road. The whole fortress was built in the year 1372 during the Ming Dynasty and …
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The Mogao Caves, also well known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, the biggest, best-preserved, and most significant site of Buddhist statuary and frescoes in all of China are all here, which is located 25km southeast of Dunhuang. There are 735 caves in Mogao, and the caves in Mogao are particularly …
Read More »Kyungmo Monastery ཁྱུང་མོ་དགོན་པ།
In the 14th century Yeshe Gyaltsen, a Bonpo monk from Yaru bensa kha Monastery and originally from Sog de in Nagchu kha, asked his main master, mTha’ bral bSod nams rgyal mtshan, about his future. His master told him that he was to spread the doctrine in a land called …
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