Kirti Gompa
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kirti-gompa-219-995696
title:
Kirti Gompa
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Kirti Gompa, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries and nunneries are located nearby. As of March 2011, the Kirti Gompa was said to house 2,500 monks. Between 2008 and 2011, mass arrests and patriotic re-education programs by Chinese authorities have targeted the monks, reducing the population substantially to 600 monks. The wave of Tibetan self-immolation
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Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Ngawa, Sichuan, China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirti_Gompa
date created:
2011-04-12T02:58:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T10:14:55Z
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