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Tsurphu Gön མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན།

Founding (1189) •Religious Sect > Kamtsang or Karma Kagyü མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན། > mtshur phu dgon > Tsurpu Gön Tsurphu Monastery (also Tolung Tsurpu / sTod lung mTshur phu) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery which served as the traditional seat of the Karmapa. The Kagyu school (Red Hat) Tsurphu was founded in 1187 by the Karmapa 1 Dusum Khyenpa (1100-1193) It is located in Gurum town (rgu rum) of Doilungdêqên County, 70 km from Lhasa. The monastery is about 4,267 metres (14,000 feet) above sea level. It was built in the middle of the valley facing south with high mountains surrounding the monastery complex. Tsurphu is a 300m2 complex with walls up to 4 meters thick. The monastery or "gompa", the traditional seat of the Karmapa lamas, is about 28 km up the Dowo Lung Valley, on the north side of the river. The original walls of the main building were up to 4 metres thick and 300 metres square. The monks' residences were on the eastern side. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurphu_Monastery སྟོད་ལུང་མཚུར་ཕུ་ IW Tshurpu in Tolung RY seat of the Karmapas in Central Tibet

Tags: Tibet བོད བོད་ལྗོངས། 2024 ༢༠༢༤་ ©Jan Reurink Tibetan Plateau བོད་མཐོ་སྒང་bötogang Tibet Autonomous Region T.A.R. Ü-Tsang Tölung Dechen སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན། county monk གྲྭ་བ། grwa ba Tsurphu Gön མཚུར་ཕུ་དགོན། Karmapa Kagyu school Red Hat founded in 1187 by the Karmapa 1 Dusum Khyenpa