Tibet Pictures – Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, about 8 km from the outskirts of the root Pei Wuzi mountain south col, there are a white buildings, from afar, as if deposited on the col where the pile of white rice, which is called the Drepung Monastery, In the Tibetan language means that the plot meters inside the temple, which is the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the three major monasteries in Lhasa, the first temple. Drepung is a disciple of Tsongkhapa – the famous purple-Yang Hsien-tsung Foseng song jeza West umbrella for stalls, in the Buddha’s behest, to start construction in 1614, the Drepung Monastery, called Biden. Jiang-Yang Qu jeza West umbrella for stalls first incumbent of the France and Taiwan.
As the Drepung Monastery when he began building and secular nobles make use of local rather closely, so Drepung soon grow up, mid-17th century, V Dalai Lama came to power, requiring the temple, when the number of resident monks from Drepung monastery in quota for 7700 people. To the liberation, the actual monks who lived over 10,000 people, the largest in Tibet, the monks of the temple up to the Group.
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