Trashilhunpo Monastery
Trashilhunpo Monastery was built in 1447 at the foot of Nyima Mountain on the outskirts of Shigatse, under the supervision of the First Dalai Lama, Gedun Zhuiba, one of the disciples of Tsong Khapa. It was expanded by the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Panchen Lamas, and has become the seat of the reincarnation lineage of the Panchen Lamas. The monastery houses the 22.4-meter-high gilded statue of Avalokiteshuara Buddha, the tallest of its kind in the world. This image of the Buddha shows him as being vividly kind and generous.