拉卜楞寺
Traditional form:
拉卜楞寺
Pinyin (reading):
Lābǔléng Sì
Definitions:
- Labrang Monastery, Tibetan: bLa-brang bkra-shis-'khyil, in Xiahe county 夏河縣／夏河县 ( Xiàhé Xiàn), Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, formerly Amdo province of Tibet
Characters:
- 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
- 卜 - divination, fortune-telling; prophecy
- 楞 - used for Ceylon in Buddhist texts
- 寺 - court, office; temple, monastery
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