Shalu Monastery

Shalu Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: ཞྭ་ལུ།
Wylie transliteration: Zhwa-lu
Official transcription (China): Xalu
THL: Zhalu
Other transcriptions: Shalu
Chinese transcription(s)
Traditional: 夏魯寺
Simplified: 夏鲁寺
Pinyin: Xiàlǔ Sì
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectShalu Sakya
Location
LocationShigatse Prefecture, Tibet, China
Architecture
FounderChetsun Sherab Jungnay
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Shalu Monastery (Tibetan: ཞྭ་ལུ།, Wylie: zhwa lu) is small monastery 22 kilometres (14 mi) south of Shigatse in Tibet. Founded in 1040 by Chetsun Sherab Jungnay, for centuries it was renowned as a centre of scholarly learning and psychic training and its mural paintings were considered to be the most ancient and beautiful in Tibet. Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsangpa during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition.

A 14th-century depiction of the 11th abbot of Shalu Buton Rinchen (left) and his successor, a wall painting inside the monastery
Young Monk in Shalu Monastery, 2006

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