
thumb|Gompa Thubten Shedrup Dhargyeling, Mustang in 2015 A Gompa or Gönpa or Gumba ( "remote place", Sanskrit araṇya), also known as ling (, "island"), is a sacred Buddhist spiritual compound where teachings may be given and lineage sādhanās may be stored. They may be compared to viharas (bihars) and to a university campus with adjacent living quarters. Those gompas associated with Tibetan Buddhism are common in Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Bhutanese dzong architecture is a subset of traditional gompa design.
thumb|Gompa Thubten Shedrup Dhargyeling, Mustang in 2015 A Gompa or Gönpa or Gumba ( "remote place", Sanskrit araṇya), also known as ling (, "island"), is a sacred Buddhist spiritual compound where teachings may be given and lineage sādhanās may be stored. They may be compared to viharas (bihars) and to a university campus with adjacent living quarters. Those gompas associated with Tibetan Buddhism are common in Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Bhutanese dzong architecture is a subset of traditional gompa design.
Gompa may also refer to a shrine room or meditation room, without the attached living quarters, where practitioners meditate and listen to teachings. Shrine rooms in urban Buddhist centres are often referred to as gompas.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).