Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Drigung Kagyü Gompa

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Only one monk living permanently in this Monastery site, but he gets many viisits by pilgrims almost every day.

The Seralung (Hailstone Valley) monastery was rebuilt in 1984 by the Drigung Kagyu monastery. It is located on the right side of a small valley near a spring.

Seralung, along with the Selung and Gyandruk monasteries near Mt. Kailash, is a branch of the Drigungtil Monastery east of Lhasa.

Seralung Gompa, another monastery that was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt since. This one was rebuilt in the 1980s, but it looks older than that.

The snow covered Gurla Mandhata (Memo Nanyi) peak (7728 m) in background.

Lake Manasarovar lies at 4556 m above mean sea level, making it the highest fresh-water lake in the world. It is relatively round in shape with a circumference of 88 km. Its depth is 90 m and its surface area is 320 square km. The lake freezes in winter and melts only in the spring. It is connected to nearby Lake Rakshastal by the natural Ganga Chhu channel. Manasarovar is the source of the Sutlej River which is the easternmost large tributary of the Indus. Nearby are the sources of the Brahmaputra River, the Indus River, and the Karnali River (Ghaghara) which is an important tributary of the Ganges River, so this region is the hydrographic nexus of the Himalaya.

The destroyed Seralung monastery (river upward to the east) was rebuilt and called Drigung Kagyü monastery (in 1984).