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Rongbuk Temple

The full name is Laducha Rongbuk Dong Aquling Temple

It is one of the temples of the Nyingmapa sect in Tibet

It is a temple where monks and nuns live together

The Rongbuk Temple was built in 1899

It was built by the Red Sect lama Ngawang Tenzin Norbu Construction

Rongbuk Monastery is located at the northern foot of Mount Everest

The end of the Rongbuk Glacier

5154 meters above sea level

About 20 meters from the summit of Mount Everest kilometers

The Rongbuk Temple is divided into two parts, the old and the new

The new temple is located three kilometers north of the old temple

The old temple is closer to Mount Everest

There are still the practice caves of Master Padmasambhava

as well as stones and stone pagodas printed with the hand and footprints of Padmasambhava

The new Rongbuk Temple was built in 1902

Rongbuk Monastery was once large in scale

At its most glorious time

There were more than a dozen affiliated temples

Some affiliated temples were even located in Nepal

Later it was destroyed due to historical factors

Now there are eight affiliated small temples under the main temple

Among them is a nunnery

Because Rongbuk Temple is far away from Zhu The summit is about 20 kilometers away

Today

This place has become the base camp for climbing Mount Everest from the north slope

Many famous Chinese and foreign photographers believe that

It is a rare and excellent location to photograph Mount Everest from here

And the Mani stone pile outside the gate of Rongbuk Temple

is usually used by photographers as the foreground for photographing Mount Everest.

With the press of the shutter

a picture is frozen forever

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