Mount Gephel

Last updated October 11, 2025

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]

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]

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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″N91°01′36″E / 29.6779581°N 91.0267925°E / 29.6779581; 91.0267925

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[i180-1] 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.

[b026-2] 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.

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