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Sakya Monastery
  • 1. How many books does the Sakya Monastery library house?
A) 10,000
B) 100,000
C) 84,000
D) 50,000
  • 2. What is the length of the traditional book stacks in the library?
A) 30 metres
B) 60 metres
C) 50 metres
D) 100 metres
  • 3. What is the weight of the heaviest scripture in the library?
A) Less than 100 kilograms
B) More than 500 kilograms
C) Exactly 1,000 kilograms
D) More than 200 kilograms
  • 4. What factor helps preserve the palm-leaf manuscripts at Sakya Monastery?
A) High humidity
B) Regular chemical treatment
C) Vacuum sealing
D) The region's arid climate
  • 5. In what year did the monastery begin digitizing its library?
A) 2022
B) 2003
C) 1959
D) 2011
  • 6. Approximately what percentage of the books were fully digitized as of 2022?
A) More than 20%
B) Less than 5%
C) 100%
D) Exactly 50%
  • 7. How many murals are found in the Sakya Monastery?
A) 1,000
B) More than 3,000
C) 5,000
D) 500
  • 8. What is depicted in the 66-meter-long mural in the main library hall?
A) The history of the Dalai Lama
B) The life of Gautama Buddha
C) The life of Kublai Khan
D) The founding of the Yuan dynasty
  • 9. How many pieces of porcelain from the Yuan dynasty are in the hall?
A) More than 1,100
B) More than 500
C) Exactly 100
D) More than 5,000
  • 10. Which institution examined the library in 2003?
A) Tibet Academy of Social Sciences
B) United Nations Cultural Heritage Board
C) The Vatican Library
D) Indian Archaeological Survey
  • 11. Who went into exile in India in 1959?
A) The Dalai Lama
B) The Tibetan King
C) The 41st Sakya Trizin
D) The 42nd Sakya Trizin
  • 12. Where is the reestablished Sakya Monastery located in India?
A) Dharamsala
B) New Delhi
C) Dehra Dun
D) Mumbai
  • 13. What is the common name for the Sakya Monastery in India?
A) Sakya Centre
B) The Tibet Institute
C) Sakya Palace
D) Western Himalayan Monastery
  • 14. Who is the current Director of the Sakya Centre?
A) Ngawang Kunga
B) Gautama Buddha
C) Ven. Sonam Chogyal
D) Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
  • 15. What is the status of the claim that the library contains records dating back 10,000 years?
A) It is partially true
B) It is verified
C) It is currently being researched
D) It is untrue
  • 16. What is one historical event depicted in the monastery's murals?
A) The invention of printing
B) The journey of the 41st Sakya Trizin
C) Phagpa's meeting with Kublai Khan
D) The independence of Tibet
  • 17. Who oversees the Sakya Centre and works on improving its infrastructure?
A) The Chinese government
B) The local government
C) Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
D) Sonam Chogyal
  • 18. What does the text say about the marital status of elder sons in the Sakya school?
A) They only married if they were not monks
B) They were forced into celibacy
C) They were forbidden from marrying
D) They typically married to maintain the family line
  • 19. Where is Sakya Monastery located?
A) Yarlung Valley
B) Beijing
C) Sa'gya Town
D) Lhasa
  • 20. How far is Sakya Monastery from Shigatse?
A) 79 kilometres
B) 127 kilometres
C) 500 kilometres
D) 200 kilometres
  • 21. Who founded Sakya Monastery in 1073?
A) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
B) Khön Könchok Gyalpo
C) Kublai Khan
D) Sakya Sangpo
  • 22. What school of Tibetan Buddhism is based at Sakya Monastery?
A) Nyingmapa
B) Kagyu
C) Sakyapa
D) Gelug
  • 23. In what year was the southern monastery founded?
A) 1073
B) 1948
C) 2002
D) 1268
  • 24. Which empire held overlordship over Tibet during the 13th and 14th centuries?
A) Yuan China
B) Qing Dynasty
C) Tibetan Empire
D) Ming Dynasty
  • 25. What is the name of the only surviving ancient building in the monastery?
A) The Northern Monastery
B) Lhakang Chempo
C) The Great Library
D) The Cave of Phagpa
  • 26. What was the Lhakang Chempo originally?
A) A cave in the mountainside
B) A market square
C) A library
D) A royal palace
  • 27. What is the approximate size of the main hall of the monastery?
A) 130,000 square meters
B) 127 square meters
C) 18,000 square meters
D) 6000 square meters
  • 28. How many monks remained in the monastery by the end of 1959?
A) 130
B) 1073
C) 36
D) 500
  • 29. Which part of the monastery was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution?
A) The main hall
B) The southern monastery
C) The library
D) The northern monastery
  • 30. What gift did Kublai Khan present to the Phagpa lama?
A) Seven ounces of gold
B) A golden statue
C) A conch shell
D) A set of iron-bound books
  • 31. What is the Tibetan name for the conch shell with whorls turning left to right?
A) Ya chyü dungkar
B) Lhakang Chempo
C) Pel Sakya
D) Wylie
  • 32. What are the dimensions of the pages in the monastery's great library?
A) Six feet long by eighteen inches broad
B) Twelve inches long by six inches broad
C) Ten feet long by two feet broad
D) Eighteen feet long by six feet broad
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