Galden Jampaling Monastery
Chamdo Champa Ling (Tibetan: chab mdo byams pa gling ) or the Chamdo Monastery, Qamdo Monastery or Monastery Changdu is a historically important monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in Eastern Tibet near the border with Qinghai. In its heyday, lived in it for more than five thousand monks and it had about a hundred and thirty Besides monasteries. It is the largest and earliest Gelugpa monastery in the region of Kham. Lobsang Tenzin Namgyel Occasion Flora, the vice chairman of the 11th Chinese People's Consultative Conference ( CPPCC), since 1942, the 11 - Phagba Lha- reincarnation of the monastery.
The monastery is located in Dagmala Mountains on the upper reaches of the Mekong ( Lancang Jiang) in the large village Qamdo ( Qamdo / Changdu ) of the circle Qamdo the turn eponymous administrative district Qamdo, Tibet, People's Republic of China, at the confluence of the two rivers Dza Chu (杂 曲, Za Qu ) with the Ngom Chu (昂 曲, Ang Qu ) on the " Dragon Mountain". The construction of the monastery, was taken 1437-1444 by Sherab Zangpo Jangsem ( Sherab Zangpo Jansem ) from Kham, a disciple of Tsongkhapa in attack which was initially at Sera Monastery in Lhasa his education.
The official bronze seal was the sixth Pagbalha Hutugtu Jigme Tenpe Gyatsho of Emperor Kangxi in the 5th month of the 58th year of the Kangxi era ( 1719) awarded in the Qing Dynasty. From then on, he was one of the Lifanyuan, namely the Ministry of Minorities Affairs, registered large Kuutuktus.
The main hall of the monastery is surrounded by guards hall, Tara Hall, sutra - debating courtyard, Gedorlha Palace, Galdan Phobrang, nine Dratshang ( faculties), sutra printing, Dratshang Practice hall and eight Dagobas It has a large collection of metal, wooden and earthen Buddha statues, Thangka painting scrolls, sacred objects and Buddhist scriptures.
It is famous for a held at a certain fixed religious mask dance jumping guardian deities.
The monastery is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 7-1401 ) since 2013.