Amdo Attractions

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 …

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 …

Shardzong Hermitage or Shardzong Ritro is a Geluk hermitage located in the Tsongkha region of Amdo and situated on a slope of Amnye Chi Ri, is one of four major meditation sites in Amdo. It was founded by the 4th Karmapa (1340–1383) at the beginning of the 14th century. It …

Ngawa Tashi Gomang monastery, a branch of Labrang Monastery, is Geluk monastery in Amdo that was founded in either 1776 or 1791 by the Second Jamyang Zhepa, Konchok Jigme Wangpo. As of 1996, it housed over 600 monks, of which eleven were incarnate lamas. Beginning in 1769, at the age …

Gomar monastery is a Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism and its full names in Tibetan is Gomar Kelden Phuntsokling. It is located 5 kilometers north of Tongren County in Qinghai Province and was founded by the Lama Yarjang in 1741. Originally Lama Yarjang built a three-storey Maitreya hall in the …