Lamayuru
Lamayuru (3,510 m; 11,520 ft) on the Srinagar- Leh Highway (NH 1D), 15 km east of the Fotu La, in Kargil district, western Ladakh, India, is famous for its monastery, and for its Moonscape - the lunar landscape with its spectacularly odd geological formations.
Lamayuru is home to mystics. Yungdrung Tharpaling Monastery, known today as Lamayuru, is more than 1100 years old with a population of around 150 resident monks. It is a monastery of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, one of 4 remaining lines of one of the 4 main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the centuries, its reputation among the lineages is for its excellence in the practical training of meditation. Lamayuru is host to two annual masked dance festivals in the second and fifth months of the Tibetan lunar calendar.
The whitewashed medieval monastery towers above a untidy cluster of tumbledown mud-brick houses at the top of a near-vertical, weirdly eroded cliff - a major landmark on the old silk route.
Lamayuru
Lamayuru (3,510 m; 11,520 ft) on the Srinagar- Leh Highway (NH 1D), 15 km east of the Fotu La, in Kargil district, western Ladakh, India, is famous for its monastery, and for its Moonscape - the lunar landscape with its spectacularly odd geological formations.
Lamayuru is home to mystics. Yungdrung Tharpaling Monastery, known today as Lamayuru, is more than 1100 years old with a population of around 150 resident monks. It is a monastery of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, one of 4 remaining lines of one of the 4 main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the centuries, its reputation among the lineages is for its excellence in the practical training of meditation. Lamayuru is host to two annual masked dance festivals in the second and fifth months of the Tibetan lunar calendar.
The whitewashed medieval monastery towers above a untidy cluster of tumbledown mud-brick houses at the top of a near-vertical, weirdly eroded cliff - a major landmark on the old silk route.