{"id":1023,"date":"2014-06-18T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:20:52","slug":"shey-gompa-monastery-palace-leh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/shey-gompa-monastery-palace-leh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shey Gompa , Monastery Palace, Leh , Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shey<\/strong> is on Leh Manali road , located near Thikse monastery<\/strong> on a hillock about 15 kms from Leh. Large number of rock carvings, stupas and monastries are on this road , it has also the biggest Chorten field<\/strong> with hundreds of various size of shrines scattered across the desert land scape .\u00a0Shey Palace and Gompa <\/strong>complex was built in around \u00a01650 AD by the King Deldon Namgyal<\/strong> used it as a summer retreat by the kings of Ladakh, it is in ruins now. Shey Monastery <\/strong>was built in the memory of his father Singay Namgyal <\/strong>within the palace complex .
\nIt is famous for the giant statue of Shakyamuni Budha<\/strong> second largest in Ladakh made of Copper with gold plating. Dogras of Jammu invaded Leh in 1834 Namgyal King <\/strong>abandoend Shey<\/strong> and made Stok<\/strong> acrossed the Indus river as their permanent residence.
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Shey Palace Leh , Ladakh<\/p><\/div>
\nIt is famous for the\u00a0giant statue of Shakyamuni Budha<\/strong>\u00a0second largest in Ladakh made of Copper with gold plating.\u00a0Dogras of Jammu invaded Leh in 1834 Namgyal King abandoend Shey<\/strong>\u00a0and made\u00a0Stok<\/strong>\u00a0acrossed the Indus river as their permanent residence.Sahakyamuni Budha<\/strong> statue is 12 meters in height the wall behind has the immage of Sariputra and Maudgalyayana the two disciples of Lord Budha<\/strong>, walls around the statue are painted with images, this statue in the monastry is in three levels , the lowest level shows the sole pointing upwards, murals of Shambunath<\/strong> on middle floor are\u00a0 in different postures of Budha, the upper dark floor is having butter lamps that burns eternally at altar. Number of wall paintings are displayed on the upper floor , lower flower is has a library and murals of Budha in various hand gestures ( mudras)<\/strong>.the temple is constructed in such a way to allow lots of sun light to falls on the walls directly because of this the murals look bright.
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\nSome distance from the palace is a small shrine built by Sengge Namgyal<\/strong> it houses Sakyamuni large statue in sitting position<\/strong> , here murals and images are similar to the palace shrine\u00a0it also depicts the 16 Arhats<\/strong> the original deciples of the Budha <\/strong>along with the teachers Padmasambhava , Atisa and Tson-Ka-Pa ,<\/strong> carvings are seen on rocks on road to the palace they are of Dhyani Budha<\/strong>\u00a0one near the palace and other four near the chorten .\u00a0\u00a0All these were crafted by the sculptor from Nepal Sanga Zargar Wanduk<\/strong> and few others their\u00a0decedents\u00a0are still living in a village called Chilling<\/strong>.
\nThe official residence (phatong) Lama of the monastery is at the edge of valley and there is a beautiful sight of Indus valley.
\nThere are two\u00a0 festivals held here every year. The first festival is held at Shey Palace on the 26th and 27th day of the first month of the Tibeten Calander which falls in July or August month\u00a0 This festival is called \u201cShey Doo Lhoo\u201d<\/strong> to mark the\u00a0beginning of the sowing season<\/strong>. The two day monastic celebration is marked by special rituals performed by the monks in the main monastery. \u00a0Villagers throng to the monastery in large numbers in a spirit of celebration . The second festival is called the \u201cShey Rupla\u201d<\/strong> that marks the harvesting season<\/strong>. On this occasion farmers offer the first fruits of the corn at the monastery<\/strong>. A dance called the \u201cRhupla dance\u201d is performed by two men in tiger costumes<\/strong>. Other forms of folk dances are also performed.
\nThere is a belief that women without children offer special prayers here to Buddha seeking blessings to beget children.<\/strong>
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Shey Chortens<\/p><\/div>
\nClose to the palace is the funeral ground. The dead are carried in a chair after due rites are performed at home. The body is placed on a\u00a0chair then carried to the funeral ground in a procession of Lamas and the common people of the village. The chair is then laid in a \u201ctubular walled oven\u201d, as prayers are chanted. The ashes are later scattered in the river.
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Shey is on Leh Manali road , located near Thikse monastery on a hillock about 15 kms from Leh. Large number of rock carvings, stupas and monastries are on this road , it has also the biggest Chorten field with hundreds of various size of shrines scattered across the desert land scape .\u00a0Shey Palace and … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,11,12,14,25],"tags":[53,271,397,668,1375,1469,1529,1537,1589,1956,2004,2420,2427,2497,2520,2547,2550,2551,2553,2618,2893],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-himalayas","category-history","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-trekking","tag-ad","tag-beautiful","tag-buddha","tag-dhyani-budha","tag-king-deldon-namgyal","tag-ladakh","tag-leh","tag-leh-manali","tag-lord-budha","tag-namgyal-king","tag-nepal-sanga-zargar-wanduk","tag-sahakyamuni-budha","tag-sakyamuni","tag-sengge-namgyal","tag-shakyamuni-budha","tag-shey-chortens","tag-shey-monastery","tag-shey-palace","tag-shey-rupla","tag-singay-namgyal","tag-tibeten-calander"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}