View from the square in front of the Deprung Monastery, Tibet.
The Drepung Monastery is one of the three large monasteries in Tibet. The other two are Ganden and Sera. Drepung is the largest monastery in Tibet and was the largest monastery of all religions in the world.
It was built at the beginning of the 15th century.
The monastery is located on Gambo Utse-mountain, 5 kilometres from Lhasa. Before the invasion of Tibet in 1959 there were 15,000 monks in the monastery. Nowadays the monastery is much smaller with a few hundred monks.
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