Rongbuk Monastery
| Rongbuk Monastery | |
|---|---|
Mount Everest as seen from the Rongbuk Monastery | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Sect | Nyingma |
| Location | |
| Location | Basum Township |
| Country | China |
| Geographic coordinates | 28°11′47″N 86°49′40″E / 28.19639°N 86.82778°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Ngawang Tenzin Norbu |
| Date established | 1902 |
Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (simplified Chinese: 绒布寺; traditional Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.
The monastery has a dry alpine ice cap climate (ET) with an average temperature of −17,5 °C, due to its severely cold winters. While in July and August days commonly hit temperatures of 10 °C, they drop significantly during nighttime. making it the coldest continuously populated place outside Antarctica. The lowest temperature that was recorded around the area is −55,7 °C.