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Drepung Monastery（哲蚌寺）: Founded by Jamyang Choje,
a disciple of Tsongkapa, in 1416. It is the biggest
monastery in Tibet, once harbored some ten thousand
monks, though as a rule. It was to house7,7000 monks.
Main relics:1) Image of Maitreya (the Future Buddha),
which is said to be so passionate and vivid that
only seeing it would release one's sufferings; 2)
White Conch Shell, which is said to have been drug
out from under the earth by Tsongkapa at its construction
site; 3) the funerary stupas of the 2nd, 3rd, and
4th Dalai Lama.
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