Samye Monastery(Chinese:桑耶寺；pinyin:sāngyēsì) is located in Danang county, the north bank of Yarlung Tsampo River, 38km to Tsedang. The Samye Monastery also called " the Samyuan Monastery" or "the Samyi Monastery". Built in the 14th Year of Dali in Tang Dynasty (in 799), it is the first real monastery with Buddha, dharma, and monks completely.

Due to its long history, it possesses a very high status among the monasteries in Tibet, its construction arts and the Tibetan Buddhism cultural relics are all worth appreciating.

This Monastery was built in accordance of an aspiration of king Trisong Detsan and the construction was designed by the famous lndian Master Padmasambava and shantarakshita. Samye meaning unexpected building in Tibetan. According to The Concise Histouy Of The Tibetan, this monastery was designed on the plan of the Odantapuri temple in puesent day Bihar, india, and mirrored the Buddhist Cosmology.

With three layers, the main hall of the Samye Monastery called "Wuce Hall"; it is high, wide, and splendid, having unique style. The construction style first floor is the Tibetan, middle is the Han, and the third is the Indian.

These three different kinds of styles are melting together in one hall, so we can know the meaning of building this monastery at that time. From top to bottom, the structure means Buddhism originated India, then it was handed into China and melted Confucian and Taoism, and at last, it belongs to the Han people's culture.

Integrated above features, it is developing into the unique Buddhism in Tibet. This alone makes the Samye monastery different from the monasteries in Tibet and everywhere in China.

Due to the collecting style of Indian, Han and Tibetan Buddhism, the decorations in each layer appears different style. Gathering cultural relics and works of three kinds of Buddhism cultures such as exquisite mural paintings, statues, woodcarvings, and stone carvings, some cultural relics are rare collections.