Tibetan monastery at Lijiangs Yulong Mountain
Seralung Gompa
Manasarovar lake and the Nemo Nanyi (Gurla Mandhat…
Stupa at the Seralung Gompa
Seralung Gompa
Seralung Gompa
Seralung Gompa called also Drigung Kagyü monastery
Inside the Seralung Gompa
Chorten at the Tholing Monastery
The highway back to the lake Manasarovar
German tourist group camp at the lake side
Chiu Gompa and the Kailash in background
Chiu Gompa Monastery
Walls inside the monastery
Prayer wheels in the Chiu Gompa
Vista to the Chiu Gompa
Chiu Gompa
Chiu Gompa
Tholing Gompa
Banlaem Monastery Wat Chonglom
Abbot in front of his accommodation
Compound of monks accommodations
Wat Sri Chan in Baan Na Oo
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Drepung Monastery 3 km outside Lhasa
Inside the Seralung Gompa ...
Chiu Gompa (4570m) beside Manasarovar lake
Stupas at the Seralung Gompa entrance
Ganden Monastery near Lhasa
Pilgrims step in the Toling Monastery
Kyichu Lhakhang temple in the Paro Valley
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Ganden Monastery 55 km outside Lhasa
Being the furthest from Lhasa of the three university monasteries, Ganden traditionally had a smaller population with some 6,000 monks in the early 20th century (although Waddell reports an estimate of about 3,300 in the 1890s and there were, apparently only 2,000 in 1959.
Ganden Monastery consisted of two principal original colleges, Jangtse and Shartse, meaning North Peak and East Peak respectively. The three main sights in the Ganden Monastery are the Serdung, which contains the tomb of Tsongkhapa, the Tsokchen Assembly Hall and the Ngam Cho Khang the chapel where Tsongkhapa traditionally taught. The monastery houses artifacts which belonged to Tsongkhapa.
It contained more than two dozen major chapels with large Buddha statues. The largest chapel was capable of seating 3,500 monks. Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama (born 1935), took his final degree examination in Ganden in 1958 and he feels he has a particularly close connection with Tsongkhapa.
Ganden Monastery was completely destroyed during the rebellion of 1959. In 1966 it was severely shelled by Red Guard artillery and monks then had to dismantle the remains. Most of Tsongkhapa's mummified body was burned but his skull and some ashes were saved from the fire by Bomi Rinpoche, the monk who had been forced to carry the body to the fire. Re-building has been continuing since the 1980s and the "red-painted lhakang in the centre is the reconstruction of Ganden's sanctum sanctorum containing Tsongkapa's reliquary chorten called the Tongwa Donden, 'Meaningful to Behold.
In the monastery were about 3000 monks leaving before the place was destroyed by the chinese invators. Now is restorated and rebuild and many monks return to the place (for tourism?!?!)
Ganden Monastery consisted of two principal original colleges, Jangtse and Shartse, meaning North Peak and East Peak respectively. The three main sights in the Ganden Monastery are the Serdung, which contains the tomb of Tsongkhapa, the Tsokchen Assembly Hall and the Ngam Cho Khang the chapel where Tsongkhapa traditionally taught. The monastery houses artifacts which belonged to Tsongkhapa.
It contained more than two dozen major chapels with large Buddha statues. The largest chapel was capable of seating 3,500 monks. Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama (born 1935), took his final degree examination in Ganden in 1958 and he feels he has a particularly close connection with Tsongkhapa.
Ganden Monastery was completely destroyed during the rebellion of 1959. In 1966 it was severely shelled by Red Guard artillery and monks then had to dismantle the remains. Most of Tsongkhapa's mummified body was burned but his skull and some ashes were saved from the fire by Bomi Rinpoche, the monk who had been forced to carry the body to the fire. Re-building has been continuing since the 1980s and the "red-painted lhakang in the centre is the reconstruction of Ganden's sanctum sanctorum containing Tsongkapa's reliquary chorten called the Tongwa Donden, 'Meaningful to Behold.
In the monastery were about 3000 monks leaving before the place was destroyed by the chinese invators. Now is restorated and rebuild and many monks return to the place (for tourism?!?!)
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