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Buddhism monastery sacred sites
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Erdene Zuu Monastery
Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia
Rising from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital on the endless Mongolian steppe, Erdene Zuu Monastery marks the place where an empire of conquest transformed into a...
Choedrak Monastery
Gyaltsa, Bumthang District, Bhutan
At 3,800 metres on one of Guru Rinpoche's four sacred meditation cliffs in Bumthang, Choedrak Monastery clings to rock face above deep forest....
Chimi Lhakhang
Oomtekha, Punakha District, Bhutan
Chimi Lhakhang sits on a round hillock amid rice paddies in the Punakha Valley, reached by a twenty-minute walk through fields....
Cheri Monastery/Chagri Monastery
Boegarna_Dodennang, Thimphu District, Bhutan
Perched above the Thimphu Valley at 2,850 metres, Cheri Monastery is where Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal established the first Drukpa monastic order in Bhutan in 1620....
Basgo Gompa, Ladakh
Nimo, Ladakh, India
On a hill above the Indus, the eroded ramparts of the Namgyal kings' citadel hold three temples to Maitreya, the future Buddha....
Bomdila Monastery, Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh
Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, India
High in the West Kameng hills of Arunachal Pradesh, Bomdila Monastery is a Gelugpa Buddhist centre built as a faithful replica of the Tsona Gontse monastery of southern...
Alchi Gompa, Ladakh
Alchi, India
On the valley floor by the Indus in western Ladakh, Alchi preserves the finest surviving early western-Himalayan Buddhist art....
Kyichu Monastery
Satsam, Paro District, Bhutan
Kyichu Lhakhang in the Paro Valley is one of two temples vying for the title of Bhutan's oldest, built in 659 CE by King Songtsen Gampo to pin the left foot of a supine...
Ganden Monastery
Lhasa, Tibet, China
Ganden Monastery, founded by Tsongkhapa in 1409 on a mountain ridge east of Lhasa, is the mother monastery of the Gelug school — the largest institution in Tibetan...
Chemrey Gompa, Ladakh
Chemre, Ladakh, India
Chemrey Gompa rises on a hill above its village about 40 km east of Leh, a Drukpa Kagyu monastery founded in 1664 and dedicated to King Sengge Namgyal....
Kurje Monastery
Dawathang_Dorjibi_ Kashingtsawa, Bumthang District, Bhutan
Kurje Lhakhang — the Temple of the Sacred Body Imprint — marks the cave where Guru Rinpoche meditated and subdued a local deity in 810 CE, leaving the impression of his...
Gangteng Monastery
Gangteng, Wangdue Phodrang District, Bhutan
Gangteng Monastery commands a spur above the Phobjikha Valley at 3,000 metres, fulfilling a prophecy made by the treasure revealer Pema Lingpa....
Choeje Dra Monastery
Gyaltsa, Bumthang District, Bhutan
Choeje Dra Monastery — also romanized as Choedrak or Choje Drak — stands against one of Guru Rinpoche's four sacred meditation cliffs in Bumthang....
Jampa Lhakhang
Dawathang_Dorjibi_ Kashingtsawa, Bumthang District, Bhutan
Jampa Lhakhang in Bumthang is said to be one of 108 temples built by Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in a single day in 659 CE, each pinning a part of a supine demoness who...
Abhayagiri Vihara
Anuradhapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Founded around 89 BCE by a king fulfilling a vow of vengeance and restoration, Abhayagiri grew into one of the ancient world's most cosmopolitan Buddhist institutions — a...
Ling Jiou Mountain Monastery
Fulong, New Taipei City, Fulong, New Taipei City, Taiwan
On a coastal mountain in northeastern Taiwan, this monastery was founded in 1984 by the monk Hsin Tao as a place to renew Buddhist practice for a modern world....
Zhaiming Monastery
Daxi, Taoyuan City, Daxi, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Founded in 1873 by devotees of the Longhua sect, one of China's fasting religions, Zhaiming Monastery has since been absorbed into mainstream Taiwanese Buddhism under the...
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