Drepung Monastery

Tibet Autonomous Region · China

Drepung Monastery, China
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
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Once the largest monastery in Tibet, spread across a hillside west of Lhasa in a maze of white buildings. It served as an important center of Gelug learning and hosts a major annual thangka unveiling.

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