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Kundeling Monastery

Lhasa, China · built 1650

Kundeling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lhasa, Tibet. It was founded around 1794, and follows the Gelug school. The head of the monastery belongs to a lineage of incarnations that dates back to 1402. There is dispute over the current incarnation. The monastery was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, then rebuilt in the 1980s.

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