{"id":1868,"date":"2012-03-29T08:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2012-03-29T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T02:35:41","slug":"sankar-gompa-leh-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/sankar-gompa-leh-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankar Gompa , Leh , Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sankar Gompa<\/strong> the official residence of the head of<strong> Gelukpa Sect of Buddhists<\/strong> in Ladakh<strong>\u00a0The Kushok Bakula Renpoche \u00a0<\/strong>he died in 2004\u00a0 , this monastery is branch of Spituk Monastery<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7170\/6770850711_89e6bb75ee.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sankar Gompa official residence Head of Gelugpa Sect. in Leh<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe main entrance of Courtyard attracts the visitors for its beautiful \u00a0decorations. The left wall \u00a0is having a \u201cWheel of Life\u201d, held by Yama. The other side \u00a0is the Dukhang, decorated \u00a0with paintings of Guardian of the Four Directions, a throne reserved for the head monk of monastery. \u00a0This Buddhist monastery have fabulous collection of exquisite paintings and murals of the Guardian divinities of the Four Quarters of Heaven, the Old Man of Longevity, the Wheel of Life and Sakyamuni Buddha with his sixteen sages and thirty-five benevolent Buddhas. There is also <strong>statue of Avalokiteshwara Padmahari<\/strong> with 1,000 heads and arms and <strong>Yamantaka (God of<\/strong> <strong>Death)<\/strong>. Sankar Gompa also treasures <strong>Kanshur, 108 volumes of Buddha&#8217;s teaching<\/strong> and idols of three Buddhas \u2013 Sakyamuni, the Present Buddha and Maitreya (Future Buddha).<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7031\/6770915457_29039ea26f.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Sankar Gompa<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Please contact for more details and packages<span style=\"color: #000080\"> +91-9810506646<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Email: <span style=\"color: #000080\">promark@promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>website : <span style=\"color: #000080\">www.promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blog :<span style=\"color: #000080\"> www.promarktravels.com\/blog<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sankar Gompa the official residence of the head of Gelukpa Sect of Buddhists in Ladakh\u00a0The Kushok Bakula Renpoche \u00a0he died in 2004\u00a0 , this monastery is branch of Spituk Monastery &nbsp; The main entrance of Courtyard attracts the visitors for its beautiful \u00a0decorations. The left wall \u00a0is having a \u201cWheel of Life\u201d, held by Yama. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/sankar-gompa-leh-ladakh\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,4,11,12,14,18,19,21],"tags":[198,271,397,400,1469,1529,2428,2452,2675,2855],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-himalayas","category-history","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","tag-avalokiteshwara-padmahari","tag-beautiful","tag-buddha","tag-buddhas-sakyamuni","tag-ladakh","tag-leh","tag-sakyamuni-buddha","tag-sankar-gompa","tag-spituk-monastery","tag-the-kushok-bakula-renpoche"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}