Pabonka Hermitage

Pabonka Hermitage
Pabonka Hermitage
Tibetan transcription(s); Wylie transliteration: Pha bong kha; Chinese transcription(s); Traditional: 帕邦喀; Simplified: 帕邦喀
	Pabonka Hermitage
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Festivals	Six-day Avalokiteśvara fasting Losar ritals; Sixteen day fourth Tibetan month fasting rituals; “Sixth-Month Fourth-Day” pilgrimage
Leadership	Part of Sera Monastery today.
Location
Location	Mount Parasol, Lhasa Prefecture, Tibet, China
Country	China
	Location within Tibet
Geographic coordinates	29°43′11″N 91°7′06″E / 29.71972°N 91.11833°E
Architecture
Founder	Songtsen Gampo
Date established	7th century

Pabonka Hermitage (Pha bong kha), also written Pawangka,^[1] is a historical hermitage, today belonging to Sera Monastery, about 8 kilometres northwest of Lhasa in the Nyang bran Valley on the slopes of Mount Parasol (Dbu gdugs ri) in Tibet.

Founded by Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century, it is currently the largest and most important of the Sera hermitages and is the starting point for the “Sixth-Month Fourth-Day” (Drug pa tshe bzhi) of the Sera Mountain Circumambulation Circuit (Se ra’i ri ’khor) pilgrimage.

Pabonka Hermitage
Looking towards Lhasa from Pabonka Hermitage
prayer flags
Ruins

Footnotes[edit]

^ Gyurme Dorje (1999). Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath, UK: Footprint Handbooks. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.

References[edit]

Gyurme Dorje. (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan. 2nd Edition. Footprint Handbooks Ltd., Bristol, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4. In USA published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing. Chicago. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2.
Dowman, Keith. (1998). The Power-places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide. Routledge & kegan Paul, London. ISBN 0-7102-1370-0

External links[edit]

YouTube footage of Pabonka

[GD122-1] Gyurme Dorje (1999). Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath, UK: Footprint Handbooks. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.

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