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
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
Location
LocationLhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
CountryChina
Location within China
Geographic coordinates29°39′23″N 91°06′22″E / 29.6565075°N 91.1062317°E / 29.6565075; 91.1062317
Architecture
FounderChoedrub Dewal Doungen Rinpoche
Date established1663

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.