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Tengboche Monastery (or Thyangboche Monastery), also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community. Situated at 3,867 metres (12,687 ft), the monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal. [1]
Tengboche and the Tengboche Monastery complex built around the village are considered the oldest Sherpa celibate monastery. Sherpas (Sherpas are Tibetans who migrated from Tibet and settled in this region of Nepal about 450 years ago) who form the main social community of the region were a pastoral, agricultural and trading community.
Khumbu is one of three subregions of the main Kirat Kulung and Sherpa settlement of the Himalaya, the other two being Solu and Pharak. It includes the town of Namche Bazaar as well as the villages of Thame, Khumjung, Pangboche, Pheriche and Kunde. The famous Buddhist monastery at Tengboche is also located in Khumbu. [3]
The property is located in the Red Feather Lakes area of Colorado on 600 acres (2.4 km 2) in the foothills west of Fort Collins.The geographic coordinates are The land was originally developed as the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1971, and operated by his organization, Vajradhatu.
Gorak Shep is inside the Sagarmatha National Park, the homeland of the Sherpa people, famous for their skills as guides and mountaineers.It is the final stop on most common treks to Everest Base Camp from Lukla, following what the Dalai Lama dubbed "the steps to heaven."
Pangboche or Panboche is a village in Khumjung Village Development Committee of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of Nepal at an altitude of 13,074 feet (3,985 m). [1] It is located high in the Himalayas in the Imja Khole valley, about 3 kilometres northeast of Tengboche and is a base camp for climbing the nearby Ama Dablam and trekking.
Apa Sherpa previously held the world record for summiting Mount Everest 21 times. Kami Rita Sherpa who has scaled the mountain 28 times as of 23 May 2023 currently holds the record. [ 1 ] It was also a childhood home of Tenzing Norgay , who was, with Sir Edmund Hillary , one of the first men to climb Mount Everest.
For unknown reasons, larger-scale maps of the region later published showed differently. The Bonanza, Colorado 1:62,500 scale maps first published in 1959 and the Mount Ouray, CO 1:24,000 scale maps first published in 1980 assigned the name Chipeta Mountain to a lower rise (elevation 12,850 feet (3,917 m)) on the southwest ridge of the mountain.