Gyangdrak Gön རྒྱང་གྲགས་དགོན། 5010m, Tibet
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Overlooking the vast Barka plain in the background the Himalaya mountain range and lake Langa tso ལག་ངར་མཚོ་ ( Rakshas Tal) , Langa tso is called the `Lake of the Demon`or Lake of Poisened Water`. The distance of the lake is some 20 km away, and the snow peaks of the Himalaya some 90 km away from this temple.
The inner circumambulation (nangkor ནང་ཀོར་ ) route (Kailash); Gyangdrag Gonpa and Mount Yelakzung.
This Drigung Kagyu monastery in the central approach valley of Mount Kailash was originally founded some 800 years ago by the Drigung retreat administrator Drubtob Guya Gangpa, ( totally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution) and has been rebuilt since 1983. It is said to be the actual place where the founding master of the Bon tradition, Shenrab Miwoche, stayed when he came to Tibet several thousand years ago and imparted the first Bon rituals relating to the pacification of the spirits who control mountains and environment. The ruins of the Drigung hermitage of Selung (4940 m) lie beyond Gyangdrak.
Gyangdrak Gön རྒྱང་གྲགས་དགོན། 5010m, Tibet
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Overlooking the vast Barka plain in the background the Himalaya mountain range and lake Langa tso ལག་ངར་མཚོ་ ( Rakshas Tal) , Langa tso is called the `Lake of the Demon`or Lake of Poisened Water`. The distance of the lake is some 20 km away, and the snow peaks of the Himalaya some 90 km away from this temple.
The inner circumambulation (nangkor ནང་ཀོར་ ) route (Kailash); Gyangdrag Gonpa and Mount Yelakzung.
This Drigung Kagyu monastery in the central approach valley of Mount Kailash was originally founded some 800 years ago by the Drigung retreat administrator Drubtob Guya Gangpa, ( totally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution) and has been rebuilt since 1983. It is said to be the actual place where the founding master of the Bon tradition, Shenrab Miwoche, stayed when he came to Tibet several thousand years ago and imparted the first Bon rituals relating to the pacification of the spirits who control mountains and environment. The ruins of the Drigung hermitage of Selung (4940 m) lie beyond Gyangdrak.