Kirti Monastery
| Kirti Gompa | |
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Kirti Gompa or Gerdeng Monastery.
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | ཀིརྟི་དགོན་པ། |
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| Coordinates | 32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°ECoordinates: 32°54′N 101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China. |
| Founded by | Rongpa Chenakpa |
| Founded | 1472 |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Gelugpa |
| Head Lama | Twelfth Kirti Tsenzhab Rinpoche |
| Colleges | 4 |
| Number of monks | approx 2,500 |
Kirti Gompa (Standard Tibetan: ཀིརྟི་དགོན་པ།), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in China's Sichuan Province. As of March 2011, the gompa was said to house 2,500 monks. However, reports indicate its population has declined substantially as a result of a crackdown by authorities.
Kirti Gompa was founded in 1472 by Rongpa Chenakpa, a disciple of Tsongkhapa. It was established as a branch of Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Gompa (Nama Ge’erde Si) near the border with Gansu Province in 1693 but has outgrown its mother monastery.
The first Kirti Monastery founded by Kirti Rinpoche was in Gyelrang. These days the two main Kirti Monasteries are in Taktsang Lhamo and Nagba prefecture, in Sichuan, China. Until the invasion of Tibet by China, the area was part of the historic Tibetan region of Kham. Taktsang Lhamo was destroyed during the Cultural revolution and has now been rebuilt. There are numerous (approximately 30–40) smaller monasteries affiliated with the Kirti Monasteries spread throughout the region.
The Twelfth Kirti Tsenzhab Rinpoche, the 55th lama to head the monastery, now lives in exile and founded a Kirti Monastery in Dharamsala in India in April 1990.
Ngawa Kirti Gompa (sometimes referred to as Ge’erdengsi or Gerdeng Monastery), properly known as Kirti Kalari Gon Tashi Lhundrub, is a Gelugpa monastery on the northwestern edge of Ngawa City, the main city in Ngawa County, within the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres (10,499 ft.)
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