Chuzang Explained

Chuzang Monastery
Location:Huzhu County, Qinghai, China
Sect:Gelug

Chuzang Monastery (whole name: Chuzang Gön Ganden Mingyur Ling; ;) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Gelug sect in the Huzhu County of Qinghai province, China. Monastery was founded in 1649 during the reign of the Khoshut Mongols inside the Khoshut Khanate (1642 – 1717). In the 1950s it had about 150 monks. During Cultural revolution was mostly destroyed and now being recovered.

Chuzang is one of 4 famous Tibetan monasteries (Chuzang, Serkhog, Jakhyung and Gonlung) in north-east Qinghai, area .

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