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Yangpachen Monastery

Yangbajain, China · built 1500

Yangpachen Monastery (Wylie: thub bstan yangs pa can, ZWPY: tubten yangpachen) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yangpachen, in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet. It is historically the seat of the Shamarpas of Karma Kagyü. It is about 85 km (53 mi) southeast of Lhasa "on the northern side of the Lhorong Chu valley above the Lhasa-Shigatse highway."

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