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	Samye Monastery: Tibet Shannan Travel information
		Located in the quiet piedmont area of the Shannan Region, the Samye Monastery is the first temple to be built in Tibet and the first complete with the three Buddhist jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
		The layout of Samye Monastery resembles the Mandala in the Esoteric Buddhism.
		The Samye Monastery is located at the foot of Mount Haibu Rishen, north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/tibet/shannan/tsetang/samye_monstery.htm (814 words)

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		Sera Monastery has an assembly Hall and prayer halls.The Buddist statues kept in the monastery are comparatively large,espically the splendid Maitreya Buddha in the Assembly hall and the Buddhist Statues in the back part of the Assembly Hall.
		The Monastery was first built in 1447 under the guidance of the First Lama Gedun Chubba, a discipline of zongkaba of the Gelugba (Yellow Hat) The Panchen Lamas, abbots of Tashilhunpo Monastery, came to existence in the 17th century when the fifth Dalai Lama gave this little to his beloved learned tutor.
		The northern part of the monastery was built in the year 1079 and the southern founded in 1268 by a famous abbot of Sakya named Pagpa who once had ruled the whole of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty's supervision.
	www.ktmgh.com /tibet/places.htm (1879 words)

	Drepung monastery, Sera monastery, Samye monastery, Popular monastery in Tibet, Places to see in Tibet, Places to visit ...
		This monastery is said to be the largest monastery in the world, housing over 10000 monks and governed 7700 subsidiary monasteries and was divided into four colleges, each with its chanting ball, dormitories, kitchens and offices.
		It is the first monastery built by King Trisong Detsen in the latter part of the 08 the century.
		Samye Monastery combines 03 distinctive architectural styles that of India, China and Tibet, symbolizing the source, stability and spread of the Buddhist faith.
	pigeontravels.com /tibet/monasteries_in_tibet/drepung_sera_samye.php (284 words)

	Samye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Samye Monastery or Samye Gompa (Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས་; Wylie: bsam yas; ZWPY: Samyä) is the first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet, constructed in approximately 775 AD under the patronage of King Trisong Detsen of Tibet who sought to revitalize Buddhism which had declined since its introduction by King Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century.
		The monastery is located in Dranang, Shannan Prefecture.
		The monastery was badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution, and renovated in the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samye (250 words)

	samye monastery - the first monastery in Tibet
		And this monastery was made up of 3 floors, the first repesents the Tibetan stule, the seconf represents the Hans style, the third floor has the Indian style.so on different floors, it will present you different feeling to the art of arctecture long ago.
		By the entrance to the Wutse are two stone elephants made of white marble, and a bronze made bell hanging the cross beam, it was said by history that that bell was made in the middle 8 century, till now it is over 1250 years old.
		The constrution of Samye meant a complete and systematic set of monastic regulation was created, the Buddhism began to get roots deep into the snow land, and gradually was deeply involved into religious and political struggles.
	www.tibetmap.net /visits/Samye.htm (206 words)

	Samye Monastery <Hi-Tibet!> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Samye was the first monastery to be built in Tibet.
		The monastery is designed on the plan of the Odantapuri temple in India (present-day Bihar), and mirrors the structure of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology.
		When the monastery was first built, both Indian and Chinese monks were invited there to work on the translation of Buddhist scriptures from their respective languages into Tibetan.
	www.cots.com.cn /spots/samye.htm (345 words)

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		The charm of the monastery not only comes from its super long history--Samye is actually Tibet's first monastery and it is over 1200 years old, but largely lies in the structure of the monastery, the religious significance and the enjoyment of the trip itself.
		The Monastery is a circle fringed by a circular wall dotted with 1008 chortens.
		The trip to the Monastery itself is enjoyable, since this spot is located in beautiful Samye valley and along the Yalungtzangpo-the mother river of Tibet.
	english.ctrip.com /Destinations/Sight.asp?Resource=5524 (447 words)

	Nechung Foundation, NYC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He prophesied: "A monastery will be built on that site and, the nearby small lake and the tree are possessed by Pehar's spirit." (Pehar Gyalpo was bound to oath by Padmasambhava to head the entire hierarchy of protective spirits and Dorje Drakden, Nechung, was Pehar's principal emissary to Tibet).
		Consequently, this monastery came to be known as Nechung Yulo-ko and generations later, the tiny village of the seat of Nechung adopted the name of the monastery and was called Yulo-ko.
		Thereafter, a number of the sacred vessels, through which Pehar Gyalpo could be contacted, were moved from Samye and the monastery was instituted as the official home of the state oracle of Tibet.
	www.nechungnyc.org /monastery.html (1155 words)

	Samye Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The monastery mingled the ancient Tibetan culture, the civilzation of the Central Plains and the civilization of India.
		Samye Monastery has collected many kinds of cultural legacies in terms of history, religion, architecture, and art from all periods since the Tubo Kingdom.
		The frescoes of the Samye Monastery are well-known in the world for their wide variety of subjects, rich content and exquisite artistic skills.
	en.tibet.cn /religion/mon/t20050309_14783.htm (362 words)

	Nyingma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tradition has held that there are six monasteries known as "mother monasteries" of the Nyingma lineage, although there have been slightly different formulations of the six.
		After the decline of Chongye Palri Thegchog Ling monastery and the flourishing of Shechen, the mother monasteries became Dorje Drag and Mindroling in the upper region, Shechen and Dzogchen in the center, and Kathok and Palyul in the lower part of Tibet.
		Also of great importance to the Nyingma lineage is Samye, the first Tibetan monastery, founded by Shantarakshita.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nyingma (1966 words)

	Samye Monastery,Tsedang Travel Guides-China City Tours Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Samye became the first formal monastery that established "triratna", referring to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha, or Buddhist priesthood.
		The monastery combines the styles of China, Tibet and India, and the layout was designed to represent the ideal universe described in Buddhist scriptures.
		The monastery is secluded from the outside world by a circular wall with thousands of Buddha statues sitting on it.
	www.achinatravel.com /china-travel/china-tibet-tsedang-samye-monastery.asp (483 words)

	Yumbulagang Palace, Lhokha Tourist Sights - Tibet Travel Information
		The monastery is modeled on the Odantapuri Temple in Bihar, India.
		In the monastery there is a pair of white marble statues, their shapes are simple and with a carving style of Tang Dynasty.
		Samye Monastery is one of the oldest Tibetan Monasteries.
	www.tibettravel.info /lhokha/samye-monastery/index.html (618 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Europe \| A Scottish castle for the Buddhist faith
		The Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a surprising find, nestled among the rolling hills of Dumfries and Galloway, near the tiny village of Eskdalemuir.
		The monastery, which was established in 1967 on the site of a former Buddhist centre, is the first and largest of its kind in the West.
		She explains that the temple, like other parts of the monastery, was built and decorated mostly by volunteers, many of whom had to learn their crafts especially for the job.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=3,2050,0,0,1,0 (789 words)

	Monastery
		The Samye Monastery was completely untouched during the Chinese "deliverance" in the late fifties, most probably because of its remote location.
		It is the oldest monastery in Tibet, and for the most part, is almost entirely of the original construction.
		As part of their religious culture, all Tibetans must make the journey to the Samye monastery once in their lives, to pray.
	www.russbo.com /china/samye_monastery.htm (723 words)

	Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist Monastery and Tibetan Centre of Buddhism and Buddha Dharma. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist Monastery and Tibetan Centre of Buddhism and Buddha Dharma.
		Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist Monastery and Tibetan Centre was established in 1967 and is the first and largest of its kind in the West.
		Kagyu Samye Ling is open to people of all faiths and religions, and welcomes you for short visits or to come and participate in any of the diverse courses available throughout the year.
	www.samyeling.org (615 words)

	Tibet trek
		Samye Monastery is built as a Mandala offering of the cosmos with the central temple representing Mount Meru, the center of the universe.
		Today there are about one thousand practitioners in residence at Samye Monastery, Samye Buddhist University, and in deep retreat at the Samye Chimpu caves in the mountain oaisis behind the monastery where both monastics and nagpas cultivate all aspects of the Buddha Dharma.
		At the sacred Mala Mountain behind the Samye Monastery are the caves of Samye Chimpu where Padmasambhava stayed in his cave retreat and transmitted the Dharma to his heart disciples.
	www.sacredjourneys.org /schedule/a_lhasa.html (1127 words)

	Samye Monastery, Tibet
		Samye is famous for its sacred mandala design: the central temple symbolizes the legendary Mount Meru, center of the universe.
		Samye is a popular pilgrimage destination for Tibetan Buddhists, some of whom travel on foot for weeks to reach it.
		Samye Monastery was founded in the 8th century during the reign of King Trisong Detsen with the help of the Indian Buddhist masters Padmasambhava and Shantarakshita, whom the king had invited to Tibet to help spread Buddhism.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /tibet/samye-monastery.htm (1142 words)

	Don Croner's World Wide Wanders: Tibet \| Samye Monastery
		Samye, located at N29º19.468 / E0091º30,445 at an elevation of 11,717 feet, was the first monastery established in Tibet.
		Samye is located at the base of the sacred mountain of Hepori, which is actually a small hill looming 560 vertical feet above the monastery.
		It was here at Samye that the first seven Tibetans were ordained as monks by Shantarakshita, after the Indian teacher had closely examined them to see if they were fit to be monks.
	www.doncroner.com /Tibet/Samye/samye.html (472 words)

	Tibet Places, Places To Visit, Visit Tibet Places, Lhasa, Potala Palace, Norbulinka Park, Sera Monastery, Jokhang ...
		Drepung is one of the six largest monasteries of the Gelupa sect and comprises of six main temples: Ganden Palace, Tsochen, Ngakpa, Losaling, Gomang and Dyeyang.
		Items of interest inside this monastery built in 1447 by the first Dalai Lama are: the relics of Sakyamuni, the Hall of Maitreya and a mind-boggling collection of Thankas, frescoes and statues.
		mts, Samye Monastery is located in Zhang county on the northern bank of the Yarlung Zhangpo river.
	www.intertours-nepal.com /tibet/tibet-placesvisit.html (1255 words)

	Samye Monastery, Tibet China
		The Samye Monastery is the first monastery in Tibet, situated in Zhanang Prefecture in Tibet.
		Due to its long history, it possesses a very high status among the monasteries in Tibet, its construction arts and the Tibetan Buddhism cultural relics are all worth appreciating and attract a large number of visitors to go to appreciate.
		For example, the stone tablet and that ancient clock carved Tibetan inside the monastery are things that the Tibetan King Chisongdezan and imperial concubines and the prince Sanalei left during (742 ~ 797AD) visited in Tibet.
	www.china-travel-tour-guide.com /attractions/samye-monastery.shtml (371 words)

	The Buddhists of Eskdalemuir
		The temple of the Samye Ling monastery has been built to Tibetan specifications, two storeys high, surmounted by a pagoda, its fascia etched in tiles of blue, red and green.
		One monk first learned of Samye Ling when he found a scrap of paper with the address on his kitchen table, with no idea of how it had come to be there.
		Half a mile from Samye Ling is the retreat centre, a small complex of single-storey buildings, divided into single rooms, each containing only a chest of drawers and a 'meditation box' - large enough for someone to sit in cross-legged.
	www.serve.com /cmtan/buddhism/Mirror/tlbudi04.html (4491 words)

	SAMYE monastery
		Tibet's first Buddhist monastery was built at Samye in the Eighth Century (and rebuilt many times in later years).
		Although a number of Buddhist temples predated the monastery, Buddhism was still resisted by the aristocratic Bönpo families.
		Thus the tresury was restored, Samye was built and the naga accompished an act of great merit.
	www.sweb.cz /samye.dzong/english/engsamye.html (176 words)

	Shalu monastery tour, Monastery tour in Tibet, Tibet monasteries, Popular monasteries in Tibet
		In 1320, Buton Rinpoche, one of the greatest religious scholars was invited to be abbot of the monastery.
		The most magic feats of Shalupa were monks learned to raise their body temperature to such a level that they wore the simplest clothing to resist coldness and to run at superhuman leaps to cover a long range without rest.
		In 1329, the monastery was demolished in an earthquake and in 1333, Buton rebuilt it under the patron the Chinese Mongolian emperor.
	www.uniquetreks.com /tibet/popular_monasteries_in_tibet/shalu_monastery.php (353 words)

	Yang Guizi: Monastery Roadtrip, Part I: Samye
		Anyway, the first leg of my trip was Samye Monastery, one of the most famous in the region.
		I spent most of the day wandering around the monastery complex; it's a lot more open and airy than a lot of the other monasteries I've been to, and the surrounding area is full of orchards and wheat fields.
		I didn't get to go into the monastery (there was a PSB official, so the driver told me to go lie down on the back seat while everyone else went in).
	www.stanford.edu /~noralev/blog/2005/08/monastery-roadtrip-part-i-samye.html (1645 words)

	Great Wall Hiking Tour -- Operated by China Hiking Adventures Inc. -- Itinerary
		He was able to raise funds for the project quickly and within a year of completion the monastery already hosted a population of 2000 monks.
		The monastery is worth a visit, particularly from around 3.30 pm onwards when debating is usually held in the monastery's debating courtyard.
		Samye, in the middle of the sandy Samye valley and approached via a beautiful river crossing, is deservedly the most popular destination for tourists and has a magic about it that makes many travellers stay longer than they had intended.The monastery is Tibet's very first monastery and has a history that spans over 1200 years.
	www.china-hiking.com /tibet/itinerary.html (2001 words)

	Tibet Trekking Tours: 12-day Tibet Gandan and Samye Trekking Tour, Tibet Travel Service
		This monastery occupies an area of 150,000 square meters with 7700 lamas and becomes the largest monastery in Asia.
		This unique monastery was rebuilt after the Cultural Revolution and is shaped like an amphitheater upon a hilltop.
		Samye Monastery was the first great Buddhist monastery in Tibet, founded in 775 A.D. during the reign of King Thrisong Detsen.
	www.tibettravel.cn /Tibet_Tour/TT_TTT01.htm (1112 words)

	A Long Journey to China and Tibet (2002). Part 5 of 7: Tibet (continued).
		Just before the Samye Monastery I've noticed a fireplace, where to my and their surprise, I met the Tibetan folks that walked with me on the second day.
		I came to the monastery completely dead-tired, checked into the monastery guesthouse, in the dorm room with several other young pilgrims and fell asleep, after having a dinner at the monastery restaurant.
		After the desert I visited the monastery and then took a direct bus to Lhasa for 40Y, bypassing the risk of being fined at the ferry crossing, which is an alternative way to get to Lhasa, since Samye Monastery requires a police permit for tourists to visit.
	stason.org /articles/travel/China_Tibet_2002_part5.html (2230 words)

	Tibet's First Monastery - New York Times
		Here nomads in sheepskin coats, or peasant women in banded aprons, or monks in maroon robes gather to wait for the next boat to cross the river on the way to Samye, where Tibet's oldest monastery was founded in the eighth century, now one of the most significant historic sites in Tibet.
		Based on the design of a Buddhist temple in Bihar State in India, the monastery was built in 779 as round and square buildings and chapels arranged around a central temple in the form of a mandala, or sacred circle.
		Samye was, in 792, the site of ''the great debate,'' an extended interchange between the Indian school of Buddhist interpretation and Chinese teaching.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9B0DE2DB163BF930A2575AC0A961948260 (671 words)

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