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    A Kumbum (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་, Wylie: sku 'bum "one hundred thousand holy images") is a multi-storied aggregate of Buddhist chapels in Tibetan Buddhism...
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    Kumbum Monastery (Tibetan: སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང་, THL Kumbum Jampa Ling), also called Ta'er Temple, is a Tibetan gompa in Lusar, Huangzhong County, Xining...
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    Labrang Tashi Khyi, the largest monastery in the area after the famous Kumbum Monastery. Taktser is the original Tibetan name of Hongya Village (红崖村;...
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  • educated at Kumbum. Kumbum is a monastery of the Gelugpa tradition. "During the turmoil of the Manchu decline", Taktser Lama left Kumbum to live in Mongolia...
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    structures which, apart from the Tsuklakhang Monastery, also includes its Kumbum, believed to be the largest such structure in Tibet, that is most notable...
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    its magnificent tiered Kumbum (literally: '100,000 images') of the Palcho Monastery, the largest chörten in Tibet. The Kumbum was commissioned by a Gyantse...
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    Tibet to found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. The 4th was then born in Mongolia as the great-grandson...
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    followed the next day in France by Monday, December 20. The temple complex of Kumbum is founded in Tibet. In Ming dynasty China: Jesuit Matteo Ricci is allowed...
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    significance to Muslims and Buddhists, including the Dongguan Mosque and Kumbum Monastery. It is connected by the Qinghai–Tibet railway to Lhasa, Tibet...
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    was enticed by a procession of a thousand lamas, to stay at the temple at Kumbum. He spent a year resting and learning among other things Sanskrit and poetry...
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