Buddhist teacher

Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava)

Explore sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava).

Sacred focus

Choedrak Monastery

Gyaltsa, Bumthang, 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....

Sacred focus

Buddhism

Kurje Monastery

Dawathang_Dorjibi_ Kashingtsawa, Bumthang, 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...