Tashilunpo Monastery

The Tashilhunpo Monastery, the greatest Gelugpa monastery in the Tsang areas of Tibet, sprawls on the mountain of Mt. Niser, south-west of Shigatse.You can chose this attraction during your Tibet Tour.

It protects an place of about 300,000 rectangle measures with the ground place of about 30,000 rectangle measures. Colored in red and white’ the structures in the monastery take a position carefully together in terraced series, providing a huge and huge perspective.

The monastery was established in 1447 by Gendun Zhuba, one of the major followers of the Creator of the Yellow-colored Sect Zongkaba, and was then increased continually by different decades of Panchen Lama until it obtained its existing measurements. Gendun Zhuba was first abbot of the monastery, and in 1600 at the party invitation of the monastery, the 4th Panchen Lama became the Sixteenth abbot of it, thus created the monastery property of the following Panchen Lamas ever since.

The Ngagpa Higher education (Tantric College), one of its four monastic institutions, was the property of the Panchen Lamas, the most awesome picture in this monastery is the sculpture of massive Maitreya (Future Buddha) constructed by the 9th Panchen Lama in 1914, and took four decades for its organization.

This massive sculpture appears twenty-six meters in size and 275kg in bodyweight of strong gold, variety of useful factors such as pearl jewelry, turquoises, corals and ambers have absolved for its development. The 4th Panchen Lama’s memorial stupa was designed in 1662 and it appears 11 meters great and is protected with strong gold and gold coins. There are many other useful and unusual traditional content in the monastery, among them are discovered a lot of gold and jade massage beds signets, and imperial accreditations given by Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as a closure of ”Daitu” of the Yuan Empire scribed in the new Mongolian terminology cool by Basba. They are of excellent value for the research of record.