Nechung

Nechung Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག Wylie transliteration: gnas-chung lcog Official transcription (China): Naiqung Gönba Chinese transcription(s) Traditional: 乃琼寺
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Location
Location	Doilungdêqên District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Country	China
Location within Tibet
Geographic coordinates	29°40′17″N 91°3′21″E / 29.67139°N 91.05583°E / 29.67139; 91.05583

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Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: gnas-chung lcog, ZYPY: Naiqung Gönba) or Nechung Chok (Tibetan: གནས་ཆུང་ལྕོག, ZYPY: Naiqung Jog "the small dwelling", Chinese: 乃琼寺), is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet. It is also referred to as Sungi Gyelpoi Tsenkar, the "Demon Fortress of the Oracle King."^[1]

It is about 10 minutes walk down from Drepung Monastery, and was the residence of the three-headed, six-armed Pehar Gyalpo, the chief protector of the Gelugs (Yellow Hat sect) and the seat of the State Oracle or Nechung Oracle.^[2] It is a medium-sized temple which used to house about a hundred monks.^[3]