Kumbum Monastery

Kumbum Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: sku 'bum byams pa gling Chinese transcription(s) Simplified: 塔尔寺 Pinyin: Tǎ'ěrsì
Kumbum Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Deity	Je Tsongkhapa
Location
Location	Huangzhong County, Xining, Qinghai
Country	China
Location of Kumbum Monastery Show map of Qinghai Kumbum Monastery (China) Show map of China
Geographic coordinates	36°28′53.18″N 101°35′57.09″E / 36.4814389°N 101.5991917°E / 36.4814389; 101.5991917
Architecture
Founder	3rd Dalai Lama
Date established	1582 (1582)

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Kumbum Monastery (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་, THL Kumbum Jampa Ling), also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Lusar, Xining, Qinghai, China. It was founded in 1583 in a narrow valley close to the village of Lusar in the historical Tibetan region of Amdo. Its superior monastery is Drepung Monastery, immediately to the west of Lhasa. It is ranked in importance as second only to Lhasa.