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Buddhist monastery in Yushu Prefecture, China</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the Canadian monastery, see <a href="/wiki/Thrangu_Monastery_(Richmond,_British_Columbia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thrangu Monastery (Richmond, British Columbia)">Thrangu Monastery (Richmond, British Columbia)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox 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class="infobox-above" style="background-color: #800547; color: #FFD068;">Thrangu Monastery</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="nickname"><div style="color:black;background-color:white;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Tibetan" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard Tibetan"><span style="color:black;">Tibetan transcription(s)</span></a><br /><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibetan alphabet">Tibetan</a>: གཡེར་པ<br /><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language"><span style="color:black;">Chinese transcription(s)</span></a><br /><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional</a>: 創古寺<br /><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified</a>: 创古寺<br /><a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a>: Chuànggǔ Sì</div></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #800547; color: #FFD068;">Religion</th></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions" title="List of religions and spiritual traditions">Affiliation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sect" title="Sect">Sect</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kargyu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kargyu">Kargyu</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Leadership</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thrangu_Rinpoche" title="Thrangu Rinpoche">Thrangu Rinpoche</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #800547; color: #FFD068;">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yushu_Tibetan_Autonomous_Prefecture" title="Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture">Yushu Prefecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a>, China</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">China</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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class="geo">32.95833; 97.01667</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #800547; color: #FFD068;">Architecture</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%B6drak_Gyatso,_7th_Karmapa_Lama" title="Chödrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa Lama">Seventh Karmapa</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thrangu (or Trangu) Monastery</b> is located about 7 km south of <a href="/wiki/Jyekundo" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyekundo">Jyekundo</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Yushu_Tibetan_Autonomous_Prefecture" title="Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture">Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture</a> of <a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a> province, China, or the traditional Tibetan cultural region of <a href="/wiki/Kham" title="Kham">Kham</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrangu_Monastery&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to the huge <a href="/wiki/Earthquake" title="Earthquake">earthquake</a> on 16 April 2010 (see next section), the monastery, which was magnificently located on grasslands backed by a huge wall of granite,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> consisted of two buildings about 70 metres apart, known as the upper and lower monasteries. The monastery was approached from the road past a row of eight <a href="/wiki/Stupas" class="mw-redirect" title="Stupas">stupas</a>. </p><p>The "lower monastery" had a renovated assembly hall with 80 pillars, gilded images of the 'Buddhas of the Three Times', and murals showing the previous 16 <a href="/wiki/Karmapa" title="Karmapa">Karmapa</a> <a href="/wiki/Lama" title="Lama">Lamas</a>. There were also images of <a href="/wiki/Milarepa" title="Milarepa">Milarepa</a>, a four-armed <a href="/wiki/Avalokiteshvara" class="mw-redirect" title="Avalokiteshvara">Avalokiteshvara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Padmasambhava" title="Padmasambhava">Padmasambhava</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shakyamuni" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakyamuni">Shakyamuni</a> seated on a throne. </p><p>The "upper monastery", completely destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, had been restored in 1998, and had an image of Shakyamuni Buddha, flanked by the 'Thousand Buddhas' and an image of <a href="/wiki/Vajradhara" title="Vajradhara">Vajradhara</a>. The fine Repkong-style murals depicted the 'Twelve Deeds of Shakyamuni'. The outlying buildings were used by people from the neighbouring village to store grain.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>About 10 km northwest up a side road one comes to the rock inscriptions in both Tibetan and Chinese at Bida, some of which are claimed to have been naturally produced, linking the region with the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Princess_Wencheng" title="Princess Wencheng">Princess Wencheng</a> who is said to have stayed here for one month on her way to marry king <a href="/wiki/Songtsen_Gampo" title="Songtsen Gampo">Songtsen Gampo</a>, circa 640 CE, in Lhasa. There is a large engraved image of Princess Wencheng on a cliff behind the monastery. The Tibetan name for the site is <b>Nampar Nangdze Lhakang</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a temple here which was previously under the care of the <a href="/wiki/Drigung_Kagyu" class="mw-redirect" title="Drigung Kagyu">Drigung Kagyu</a> school but, more recently had been looked after by the monks from Thrangu.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2010_Yushu_earthquake">2010 Yushu earthquake</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrangu_Monastery&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 2010 Yushu earthquake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thrangu-ruins1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thrangu-ruins1.jpg/220px-Thrangu-ruins1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thrangu-ruins1.jpg/330px-Thrangu-ruins1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thrangu-ruins1.jpg/440px-Thrangu-ruins1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="522" /></a><figcaption>Ruins of Thrangu Monastery [2012]</figcaption></figure> <p>Thrangu Monastery and the surrounding areas, including nearby <a href="/wiki/Jyekundo" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyekundo">Jyekundo</a> or <a href="/wiki/Gy%C3%AAgu" title="Gyêgu">Gyêgu town</a>, the regional capital, were severely damaged in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Yushu_earthquake" title="2010 Yushu earthquake">2010 Yushu earthquake</a>. Many monks and thousands of laypeople died. A report filed on 16 April 2010 stated: </p> <dl><dd>"Khenpo drove to Thrangu monastery yesterday, after I spoke to him on the phone, because he heard that the damage was so severe there. He said that there were a lot of people digging in the ruins there but the monastery is in very bad shape. None of the monks’ housing there is still standing. The <a href="/wiki/Mahakala" title="Mahakala">Mahakala</a> shrine building collapsed. The main lhakang [Assembly Hall] is still standing but is heavily damaged and will have to be rebuilt. He asked people there how many monks had died and was told that no one knows yet. One monk told him sixty to seventy monks had died and another told him at least thirty. There are also two villages very close to Thrangu monastery and he said that they are completely destroyed without a single house still standing so a lot of people must have died there as well. He said that Aten Rinpoche has two cousins who were killed at Thrangu monastery."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The earthquake struck on April 14, 2010, and registered a <a href="/wiki/Seismic_scale#Magnitude_scales" class="mw-redirect" title="Seismic scale">magnitude</a> of 6.9<a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a><sup id="cite_ref-USGS-2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS-2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/USGS" class="mw-redirect" title="USGS">USGS</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_Alert_System" title="European Alert System">EMSC</a>) or 7.1<a href="/wiki/Surface_wave_magnitude" class="mw-redirect" title="Surface wave magnitude">M<sub>s</sub></a><sup id="cite_ref-xinhua400dead_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-xinhua400dead-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/China_Earthquake_Administration" title="China Earthquake Administration">CEA</a>, CENC). It originated in <a href="/wiki/Yushu_Tibetan_Autonomous_Prefecture" title="Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture">Yushu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a>, <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">China</a>, at <span class="nowrap">7:49 am</span> local time.<sup id="cite_ref-USGS-1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS-1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency" title="Xinhua News Agency">Xinhua News Agency</a>, 2,698 people have been confirmed dead, 270 missing, and 12,135 injured of which 1,434 are severely injured.<sup id="cite_ref-xinhua2064dead_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-xinhua2064dead-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Epicenter" title="Epicenter">epicenter</a> was located in Rima village (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">日玛村/日麻村</span></span>), Upper Laxiu township (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">上拉秀乡</span></span>) of <a href="/wiki/Yushu_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Yushu County">Yushu County</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-zhongwen_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-zhongwen-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in remote and rugged terrain, near the border of <a href="/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region" title="Tibet Autonomous Region">Tibet Autonomous Region</a>. The epicenter is about 30 km from Jyekundo or Gyêgu town, the seat of Yushu County,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and about 240 km from <a href="/wiki/Qamdo_town" class="mw-redirect" title="Qamdo town">Qamdo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-USGS-2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS-2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The epicenter was in a sparsely populated area on the Tibetan plateau that is regularly hit by earthquakes.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC-asia-pacific_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-asia-pacific-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yushu_New_Thrangu_Gompa">Yushu New Thrangu Gompa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrangu_Monastery&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Yushu New Thrangu Gompa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the monastery's reconstruction a new site a few kilometres further south was chosen. Its location near Mahavairocana Temple, also known by the name "Wencheng Temple", which Thrangu's monks traditionally take care of, is at the entrance of the small gorge to the main valley. The reconstruction work was financially supported by the Chinese government. The new monastery was completed in mid-August 2015. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Thrangu_Monastery_opens_in_Canada">New Thrangu Monastery opens in Canada</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrangu_Monastery&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: New Thrangu Monastery opens in Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Thrangu Monastery</b>, Canada's first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery, was officially opened in <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_British_Columbia" title="Richmond, British Columbia">Richmond, British Columbia</a>, on 25 July 2010 by Khenchen <a href="/wiki/Thrangu_Rinpoche" title="Thrangu Rinpoche">Thrangu Rinpoche</a>, the worldwide leader of <a href="/wiki/Thrangu" class="mw-redirect" title="Thrangu">Thrangu</a> Monasteries.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Assembly Hall of the new monastery contains a four-metre tall gold-plated statue of <a href="/wiki/Shakyamuni_Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakyamuni Buddha">Shakyamuni Buddha</a>, "filled with precious offerings including scriptures, scrolls and sacred stones and pebbles from 108 different countries, including China(including Hong Kong and Tibet), India, Sri Lanka and Canada. 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Lonely Planet publications. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-74059-523-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-74059-523-8">1-74059-523-8</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thrangu_Monastery&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rinpoche.com">Official Thrangu Rinpoche website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thrangu.org">Official Thrangu Rinpoche Chinese website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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