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ʼBras-spuṅs (Monastery)

LC control no.n 80065822
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingʼBras-spuṅs (Monastery)
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Variant(s)Bras-spungs (Monastery)
Drepung Monastery
Drepung Loseling Monastery
Dpal-ldan ʼBras-spuṅs Dgon-pa
ʼBras-spuṅs Dgon-pa
ʼBras Dkar Spuṅs-pa (Monastery)
哲蚌寺
Zhebeng si
Zhaibung Monastery
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inDbus ʼgyur chos sde chen po Dpal-ldan ... 1974 (subj.) t.p. (ʼBras-spuṅs) data from India (Drepung Monastery)
The Drepung Loseling Monastery WWW home page, Oct. 6, 2000 (Drepung Loseling Monastery was the largest monastery in Tibet, with approx. 10,000 monks; in 1959, they became refugees in India)
Dpal-ldan-ʼbras-spuṅs Dgon-pa, 1999: t.p. (Zhebeng si/哲蚌寺; Zhaibung Monastery) 6th prelim. p. (built in 1416; largest monastery of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism; located ca. 5 km west of Lhasa)
Dpal-ldan ʼBras Dkar Spuṅs-paʼi chos ʼbyuṅ gi zur rgyan, 2008.