Badekar Monastery

Badekar Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: རྒྱ༌ཆེན་རྟོགས་ལྡན༌གླིང༌།
Wylie transliteration: rgya chen rtogs ldan gling
Official transcription (China): Gyaqên Dog Dänling
Chinese transcription(s)
Traditional: 廣覺寺
Simplified: 广觉寺
Pinyin: Guang Jue Si
Badekar Monastery
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectGelug
Location
LocationBugt Hot
CountryChina
Location within China
Geographic coordinates40°47′32″N 110°18′53″E / 40.792319°N 110.314595°E / 40.792319; 110.314595
Architecture
StyleTibetan
FounderPrince of Ordos Fore-Banner of the Left Wing
Date establishedQing dynasty
Renovated 1749

Badakar Monastery (Mongolian script: ᠪᠠᠳᠺᠡᠷ ᠰᠦᠮ᠎ᠡ Badakar Süm), alternatively known as Udin Ju (Chinese: 五当召, transcription Wudang Zhao), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelug sect. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Inner Mongolia, and was designated a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in 1996.

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