Mount Gephel

Mount Gephel (Tibetan: དགེ་འཕེལ།, Wylie: Dge-'phel; simplified Chinese: 更丕乌孜山, 根培乌孜山; traditional Chinese: 更丕烏孜山; pinyin: Gèngpīwūzī Shān) or Genpei Utse (Zengshang Peak), is a small Tibetan mountain located 8 kilometers west of Lhasa in Tibet. Drepung Monastery lies at its foot.^[1]

Mount Gephel

The highest point of Mount Gephel is 5400 meters. There is a site in the mountainside, whenever the June 4 as the "mountain turning festival" in Tibetan calendar, thousands of believers in Lhasa would come to Mount Gephel for pilgrimaging to Buddha.^[2]

Reference

1. 红尘世界的倒影: 古代佛寺. 中华文物古迹旅游 (in Chinese). 辽宁师范大学出版社. 1996. p. 223. ISBN 978-7-81042-105-8. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
2. 玩美旅行 西藏完全自遊寶典. 玩美旅行系列 (in Chinese). 崧博出版事業公司. 2018. p. 113. ISBN 978-957-735-295-8. Retrieved 2024-05-27.

29°40′41″N 91°01′36″E