{"id":1876,"date":"2016-04-30T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:30:50","slug":"lamayuru-gompa-monastery-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/lamayuru-gompa-monastery-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamayuru Gompa , Monastery, Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Lamayuru<\/strong> is one of the largest and oldest gompa in Ladakh<\/strong>, situated in Kargil district on Srinagar- Leh highway at a height of 3510 meters,127 km from Leh about 15 Km from Fotu-La, it was\u00a0originally the Bonpo Monastery<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0called\u00a0gYung-drung<\/strong>\u00a0Monastery,\u00a0a Swastika\u00a0symbol<\/strong> and\u00a0\u00a0gYung drung bon<\/strong> \u00a0is the name of the Bon religion , The Maha Sidhachrya Naropa <\/strong>founded the Lamayuru Monastery , he was a Buddhist scholar from Nalanda University<\/strong> who came here in search for his guru Tilopa<\/strong>, a master of Tantra,\u00a0\u00a0the oldest temple\u00a0\u00a0Seng-ge-sgang<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0was built by Monk Rinchen Zangpo<\/strong> who came from Tibet ,\u00a0great translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan, he\u00a0under the patronage \u00a0from \u00a0King of Ladakh founded 108 Gompas in Ladakh, Spiti , Kinaur and Zanskar region.
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Lamayuru Gompa ( Monastery)<\/p><\/div>
\nThe monastery is made up of a number of shrines and also has a very rich collection of thankas and magnificent wall paintings.
\nThe Dukhang (Assembly hall) is on the right side of the courtyard\u00a0\u00a0with a colourful depiction of the Guardians of the Four Directions. The mural on the left wall of the verandah depicts the proper way for a lama to live<\/strong> ,The temple has an image of Vairocana or the Teaching Buddha<\/strong> is seated on a lion serving as a throne and a Garuda<\/strong> (mythical bird) and sea monsters surround his head\u00a0. In the wall on the right side of the Dukhang is a small cave with three statues known as Naropa’s cave<\/strong>, where he is supposed to have meditated , \u00a0other two statues are of Marpa<\/strong> (Naropa’s student who became a translator of religious texts and famous poet) and Mila Ras-pa<\/strong> (Marpa’s student and a spiritual head of the red-hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism).\u00a0The right side of the Dukhang has three complete sets of the Kandshur<\/strong> (the 108 volumes of Buddha’s teachings)
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Lamayuru Gompa Assembly hall<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

 
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Stupas at Lamayuru Gompa<\/p><\/div>
\nLegend is that this valley there use to be a lake\u00a0\u00a0at the time of Sakyamuni<\/strong> (the Historical Buddha). Nags<\/strong> (holy serpents) used to reside in the lake.\u00a0Bodhisattva Madhyantaka<\/strong> pridicted that\u00a0\u00a0the lake would eventually be dried, making way for the construction of a Buddhist monastery.\u00a0\u00a0Maha Siddhacharya Naropa<\/strong>, \u00a0meditated for years in one of the caves \u00a0, a crack developed in the hillside surrounding the lake. When the lake dried out he found a dead \u00a0tiger, he constructed the first temple at this site , known as the Singhe Ghang<\/strong> (Lion Mound).\u00a0\u00a0Later, Dharmaraja Jamyang Namgial<\/strong> offered the monastery to Chosje<\/strong> Danma<\/strong>\u00a0and started \u00a0observance of the rituals<\/strong> of\u00a0the Digung Kargyud School<\/strong>, the monastery was \u00a0renamed as\u00a0Yungdrung Tharpaling<\/strong>. At present the Lamayuru Monastery is served by the successive\u00a0reincarnations of Skyabsje Toldan Rinpoche<\/strong>.
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Mahasidhacharya Naropa meditated in this cave<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Lamayuru Gompa plays host a masked dance, The Yundrung Kabgyad festival\u00a0<\/strong>which takes place on the 17th and 18th day of the 5th month of Tibetan lunar calendar which falls in the month of July. The monks from the monasteries of the nearby areas also come to take part in the celebrations.
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