Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (simplified Chinese: 绒布寺; traditional Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma sect in Basum Township, Dingri County, in Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.
The monastery has a dry alpine ice cap climate (EF) with an average temperature of −17,5 °C, due to its severely cold winters. While in June and July days commonly hit temperatures of 10 °C, they drop significantly during nighttime, making it the coldest continuously populated place outside Antarctica. The lowest temperature that was recorded around the area is −55,7 °C.
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