Kundeling Monastery
| Kundeling Monastery | |
|---|---|
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: ཀུན་ བདེ་ གླིང Wylie transliteration: kun bde gling Chinese transcription(s) Simplified: 功德林 Pinyin: Gōngdé lín | |
Silver seal of the Jedruong Hutuktu [རྗེ་དྲུང་ཧུ་ཐོག་ཐུ་], an attendant to the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama who lived at the Kunde Ling Monastery. Inscriptions in the Tibetan and Manchu scripts. Qing dynasty. | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Location | |
| Location | Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China |
| Country | China |
| Geographic coordinates | 29°39′23″N 91°06′22″E / 29.6565075°N 91.1062317°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Choedrub Dewal Doungen Rinpoche |
| Date established | 1663 |
Kundeling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, China. It was founded around 1794, and follows the Gelug school. The head of the monastery belongs to a lineage of incarnations that dates back to 1402. There is dispute over the current incarnation. The monastery was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, then rebuilt in the 1980s.