Yerpa monastery
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Yerpa (also known as Brag Yer-pa, Drak Yerpa, Druk Yerpa, Dagyeba, Dayerpa and Trayerpa) is a monastery and a number of ancient meditation caves that used to house about 300 monks, located a short drive to the east of Lhasa, Tibet.
Key facts
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- Yerpa
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- Monastery ruins, Yerpa 1993.JPG
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- Monastery ruins, 1993
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- གཡེར་པ
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- Yêrba
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- 葉巴
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- 叶巴
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- Yèbā
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.religious_affiliation
- Tibetan Buddhism
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- China Tibet
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- Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Yerpa Valley, Lhasa Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.founded_by
- Songtsen Gampo and Trisong Detsen
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.year_completed
- 7th-8th century
- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.sect
- Gelug
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Yerpa (also known as Brag Yer-pa, Drak Yerpa, Druk Yerpa, Dagyeba, Dayerpa and Trayerpa) is a monastery and a number of ancient meditation caves that used to house about 300 monks, located a short drive to the east of Lhasa, Tibet.
==Description== Dra Yerpa is located on a hillside in Dagzê County. The entrance to the Yerpa Valley is about northeast of Lhasa on the northern bank of the Kyichu. From there, it is another to the famous ancient meditation caves in the spectacular limestone cliffs of the Yerpa Valley (Tibetan: བྲག་ཡེར་པ་, Wylie: Brag Yer-pa). There is an ancient sky burial site opposite the main caves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yerpa monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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