{"id":1872,"date":"2012-03-27T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:30:54","slug":"hemis-gompa-leh-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/hemis-gompa-leh-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemis Gompa, Leh , Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hemis Gompa<\/strong> in Hemis town 40 km from Leh city , it is a famous\u00a0monastery founded by King Senge Nampar Gyalva\u00a0 in 1672 AD<\/strong> , every year in the month of July a\u00a0colorful festival is held in the compound attended by not only the locals but people from all over the world.\u00a0Hemis gompa is also believed to have been established in 1630 by Lama Tagstang Raspa and built by Palden Sara under the patronage of King Sengge Namgyal\u00a0<\/strong>on a site previously sanctified by the construction of a cave hermitage<\/strong> dating from the 12th century. This monastery is the oldest one in the area belonging to the<\/strong> Kargyu school\u00a0<\/strong>.
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Hemis Gompa main compound<\/p><\/div>
\nThis two-day festival depicts a dance-homage to the birth anniversary of Lord Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche<\/strong>. The festival is the largest and biggest of the Tibetan Buddhist Gompa festivals in Ladakh<\/strong>. It is celebrated across three days from the 9th to the 11th day of the fifth month of the lunar Tibetan calendar,\u00a0<\/strong>vibrant and endless dances are accompanied by discordant sounds of cymbals, large-pan drums, small trumpets and large \u00a0size wind instruments .<\/strong> The lamas \u00a0get transformed into demons and gods ,\u00a0bang on drums and crash symbols together as others gyrate and leap to fight off demons.<\/strong>
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Hemis information display at entrance<\/p><\/div>
\nThe predominantly practiced religion in Ladakh is the Mahayana Buddhism<\/strong>. Mahayana Buddhism is based on the eighth tenet of the concept of the eight fold part<\/strong> as propagated by Lord Buddha. This form of Buddhism stresses on meditation and concentration<\/strong>. One of the most innovative concepts introduced by the Mahayanists is that of the bodhisattvas.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAs one enters the courtyard, to the right are two large temples up small flight of stone steps<\/strong>. The fronts have a wooden verandah of Kashmiri style, rising two storeys. As one faces them, the temple on the left is the Tshogs-khang<\/strong> and on the right is the Dukhang.<\/strong> The Dukhang contains the throne of the Rimpoche<\/strong> and seating areas for the lamas. \u00a0Tall wooden pillars rise in the center to a square cupola with windows that supply light to the throne. The walls also have paintings of Sakyamuni (the Historical Buddha) with the blue hair<\/strong>, other Buddha figures and paintings of Tantric deities such as Hevajra and Samvara<\/strong>. In the Tshogs-khang is a large gilded statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha with blue hair surrounded by several silver chortens decorated with semi-precious stones. In front of the Buddha is a throne made of painted and lacquered wood, a present from the former Maharaja of Kashmir to a former Incarnate Lama of Hemis<\/strong>
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Pehar Gyalpo the protective Deity of Hemis<\/p><\/div>
\nPehar Gyalpo<\/strong>, revered as the protective deity of Hemis<\/strong>. It is said that Pehar was once the lord protector of<\/strong>\u00a0Sam-Yas monastery<\/strong>\u00a0and a monk from there by hiding the spirit of this deity inside a cymbal had brought it to Hemis. Each day sacred rituals are performed to evoke Pehar\u2019s blessings.<\/strong>
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Hemis Gompa in Hemis town 40 km from Leh city , it is a famous\u00a0monastery founded by King Senge Nampar Gyalva\u00a0 in 1672 AD , every year in the month of July a\u00a0colorful festival is held in the compound attended by not only the locals but people from all over the world.\u00a0Hemis gompa is also … →<\/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":[1],"tags":[53,397,1017,1398,1399,1469,1500,1529,1584,1732,2097,2139,2427,2428,2432,2887,2941],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad","tag-buddha","tag-hemis-gompa","tag-king-senge-nampar-gyalva","tag-king-sengge-namgyal","tag-ladakh","tag-lama-tagstang-raspa","tag-leh","tag-lord-buddha","tag-mahayana-buddhism","tag-palden-sara","tag-pehar-gyalpo","tag-sakyamuni","tag-sakyamuni-buddha","tag-sam-yas","tag-tibetan-buddhist-gompa","tag-tshogs-khang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}