Samye
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Samye Monastery (, ), full name Samye Migyur Lhundrub Tsula Khang (Wylie: Bsam yas mi ’gyur lhun grub gtsug lag khang) and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence, is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen. Khenpo Shantarakshita began construction in 763, and Tibetan Vajrayana founder Guru Padmasambhava tamed the local spirits before its completion in 767. The first Tibetan monks were ordained there in 779. Samye was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution then rebuilt after 1988.
Key facts
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.name
- Samye
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.native_name
- བསམ་ཡས
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- A grand view of Samye.jpg
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.caption
- The main building of the Samye Monastery
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.map_type
- China Tibet
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.religious_affiliation
- Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrayana
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.location
- Lhokha in Chimpu Valley, Lhasa Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.sect
- Nyingma
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- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.founded_by
- King Trisong Deutsen
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.groundbreaking
- 763 by Shantarakshita, then 767 by Padmasambhava
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.year_completed
- 779
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Wikidata facts
- Religion
- Rimé movement
- Country
- Chinese Empire
- Image
- Samye-94-Hauptgebaeude-2014-gje.jpg
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- Commons category
- Samye
- heritage designation
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
- catalog code
- 90
- Commons gallery
- Samye
- inception
- 0779-00-00
Sources (2)
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Article · Italiano
Il monastero di Samye (bSam-yas) (in cinese: :桑耶寺) fu il primo monastero buddhista edificato in Tibet. Fu costruito verso il 788 sotto gli auspici del sovrano Trhisong Detsen. Monastero di Samye
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
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