In order to memorize the founder of yellow sect Tsongkhapa,Kumbum was built as a big silver tower. Kumbum was named as “Buddha mountain” and originally means a Mireuksa gathering 100 thousand howling lions.Kumbum was the birthplace of Tsongkhapa who was the founder of yellow sect of Tibetan Buddhism.Kumbum was one of six temples of yellow sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Kumbum was one of the famous interests and national key protection relics. It was built in 1560 with a history over 400 years old. It covers areas over 600 acres including palaces, halls, Buddhist towers, lamas, a building complex mixing both han and Tibetan arts.

　　Tsongkhapa was born in Tibetan clender Oct. 10, 1357. He was quite smart. When he was very young, he began to study in the temple. He was very knowledgeable and knew the religious books very well. He also publicized his own works and made an ideology foundation on his own theory. All his life, he published altogether over 170 books. He left home and study Buddhism for long time, his mother missed him so much. She sent her son some white hair and hoped that he could go home for meeting her. Tsongkhapa used his nose blood for drawing a self-painting and a Buddhist image made by howling lions. He trys to send note to his mother: If you can built a Buddhist tower containing Buddhist image made by 100 thousands howling lions and bo-tree. It would be the same as you see myself. In 1939, his mother and other believers use the stone for accumulating a Stupa, this is the origin of Kumbum Stupa. In 1577, besides the Stupa, the believers built a Han style hall of Ming dynasty nearby. Because there is Stupa at first, then the temple, so later the people named this together as Kumbum Stupa.

　　Kumbum means hundred thousand Buddha images in Tibetan. The great octagonal sutpa is one of the Tibet’s outstanding architectural achievements, it was built and decorated by the local prince Rabten Kunsang Phak in the style known as Tashi Gomang or Kumbum, which combines a terraced stupa exterior with multi-layered interior chapels. Rising 35 meters high, the Stupa is said to have 108 cells, nine storeys(including the base) and 75 chapels. One tradition identifies the 108 cells with the nine storeys (representing space) multiplied by the 12 astrological signs (representing time). Within the 75 chapels, the images from a progressive hierarchy of three dimensional mandalas, as outlined in the Sakyapa compilation, ensuring that the Stupa encapsulates within it the entire spiritual path and gradation of the tantras.

　　Within the low and dark staircases it winds up in the clockwise to the top and from there you will have a spectacular view of the town in the shadow of famous Gyantse fort, walls within the stupa comprise most extraordinary murals of different religions including Hidus that mostly date back to its original.