Amdo Attractions

Dzamthang monasteries are located at a same place adjoining each other in the valley of mid Dzamthang. The largest three monasteries Tsangwa. Choje and Tsechu are formed a monastic city in this valley. Tsangwa Monastery གཙང་བ་དགོན་པ། Tsangwa Monastery is an important Jonang monastery that was founded in 1717 by Lodro …

Drakar Tredzong monastery-The White Monkey Fortress is a rarely visited remote monastery in Amdo Tibet. It is one of the most famous monastery in Amdo and brings many pilgrims each year. The monastery is located at the base of 5000m mountain and earlier it had close to 1000 monks but …

This old sacred monastery is one of the Four Northern Grand Monasteries.The monastery is situated in a small beautiful landscape, about 28km from nearest Gonlung county ( Huzhu in Chinese ) of Amdo Tibet and 44km from Xining city. Chuzang monastery is Gelugpa sect monastery, founded in 1649 by first …

Shachung monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in Eastern Tibet and the oldest of Four Northern Grand monasteries. It was founded in1349 by Chojye Dhondup Rinchen and situated in Palung county of Amdo Tibet, about 113km from Xining city. Paradise on earth, Shachung was built on a mountain ridge …

Kumbhum Jampa-ling Monastery, one of the six major monasteries of Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism was founded in 1583 by the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam-gyatso (1543-1588). It was built in a narrow valley close to the village of Lusar, at the site where Tsongkhhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelugpa …