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The Jowo Temple of Kyichu is one of the oldest temples in Bhutan, originally built in the 7th century by the Tibetan Emperor Songtsen Gampo, the 33rd King of the Yarlung dynasty, who ruled Tibet for much of the first millennium.
Tholung Monastery (Tibetan: ཋོལུང་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: Tho Lung dgon pa) is a gompa located in remote upper Dzongu, in the buffer zone of Khangchendzonga National Park. It is considered one of the most sacred monasteries in Sikkim .
Maizhokunggar County or Meldro Gungkar County is a county of Lhasa and east of the main center of Chengguan, Tibet Autonomous Region.It has an area of 5,492 square kilometres (2,120 sq mi) with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).
Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang [zlum brtshegs lha khang] or Dungtse Lhakhang is a Buddhist temple in western Bhutan.The temple is notable as it is in the form of a chorten, very rare in Bhutan.
Tradruk Temple (Tibetan: ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: khra-’brug dgon-pa, Lhasa dialect: [ʈʂʰaŋʈʂuk kø̃pa], referred to as Changzhu Monastery in Chinese) in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple. [1]
Chimi Lhakhang (Dzongkha: ཁྱི་མེད་ལྷ་ཁང), also known as Chime Lhakhang or Monastery or temple, is a Buddhist monastery in Punakha District, Bhutan. [1] Located near Lobesa , it stands on a round hillock and was founded and built in 1499 by the Drukpa Kagyu lama Ngawang Chogyal , [ 2 ] who was the 14th abbot of Ralung ...
Prayer set the rhythm of the days of the monastery, which lived in peace with the neighbouring village. They bonded with their Muslim neighbours by teaching French, providing employment at the monastery's farm, and medicine, and clothes and shoes for the poor. [1] The farm and the adjacent lands to the abbey (374 hectares) were nationalized in ...
Climate data for Sêrxü, elevation 4,200 m (13,800 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep