Rongbuk Monastery
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Mount Everest as seen from the Rongbuk Monastery
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་ |
| Wylie transliteration | rdza rong phu dgon |
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| Coordinates | 28°11′47″N 86°49′40″E / 28.19639°N 86.82778°ECoordinates: 28°11′47″N 86°49′40″E / 28.19639°N 86.82778°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Basum Township |
| Founded by | Ngawang Tenzin Norbu |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Date renovated | 1983 |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Nyingma |
Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township,Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China.
Rongbuk monastery lies near the base of the north side of Mount Everest at 4,980 metres (16,340 ft) above sea level, at the end of the Dzakar Chu valley. Rongbuk is claimed to be the highest monastery in the world. For Sherpas living on the south slopes of Everest in the Khumbu region of Nepal, Rongbuk Monastery was an important pilgrimage site, accessed in a few days' travel across the Himalaya through the Nangpa La. The monastery was also regularly visited by the early expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s and 1930s after a five-week journey from Darjeeling in the Indian foothills of the Himalaya. Most past and current expeditions attempting to summit Mount Everest from the north, Tibetan side establish their Base Camp near the tongue of Rongbuk Glacier about 8 km (5 mi) south of the Monastery.
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