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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]
A member of the American-Cassinese Congregation, it is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The shrine is dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul. Pope Pius XII raised the monastery church to the status of a Minor basilica via his decree Quasi fons lucis on 25 August 1955.
Nevertheless, her leadership during those years resulted in the establishment of three new foundations: Mount St. Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania (1856), St. Gertrude Monastery in Newark, New Jersey (1857), and Saint Benedict's Monastery in St. Cloud, Minnesota (1857). [3] Convents in Covington (1859) and Chicago (1861) branched off ...
In the 1980s-1990s, Richard J. Kohn worked on university research focused on the Mani Rimdu. The Mani Rimdu festival is performed in the Sherpa and Tibetan monasteries of Solu Khumbu District in the Everest region of Nepal: Chiwong, Thami, Tengboche Monastery. Nowadays, Mani Rimdu is the biggest event of the year for the Sherpas of the Khumbu ...
The Sherpa people (Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ།, romanized: shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. The majority of Sherpas live in the eastern regions of Nepal, namely the Solukhumba , Khatra , Kama , Rolwaling , Barun , and Pharak valleys. [ 4 ]
Mother Benedicta Rapp and five Benedictine sisters arrived in Erie in June 1856, [1] where they established the first daughter house of the Benedictine Sisters of Elk County, with Scholastica Burkhard appointed as Mother Superior. [2]
Saint Emma Monastery (founded 1931) is a Roman Catholic retreat house and monastery for the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Westmoreland County, located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The current Prioress is Mother Mary Anne Noll OSB.