{"id":2209,"date":"2014-06-25T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:30:18","slug":"stakna-gompa-monastery-leh-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/stakna-gompa-monastery-leh-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakna Gompa , Monastery Leh, Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stakna<\/strong>\u00a0Gompa<\/strong>\u00a0, monastery is\u00a0situated at 25 km from Leh city in the Indus valley\u00a0surrounded by beautiful snow-capped mountains. Stakna<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0means “Tiger’s Nose” \u00a0<\/strong> is built about 500 years ago on the summit of an isolated high rock looks like a tiger nose , \u00a0in the middle of the Indus river on the left bank . It is a small monastery belongs to \u00a0the red-hat sect of Buddhism , it has several sister monasteries, including three in the Zanskar<\/strong> valley namely Mud<\/strong> and Kharu<\/strong> and those of Stakrimo, Bardan<\/strong> and Sani<\/strong> in Zanskar.
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Stakna Gompa Monastery Leh<\/p><\/div>
\nStakna<\/strong> Monastery<\/strong> of Leh Ladakh is establised by\u00a0Chosje Jamyang Palkar<\/strong>, the great scholar saint of Bhutan .\u00a0The central image inside the monastery is that of the sacred Arya Avalokitesvara from Kamrup (Assam)<\/strong>.\u00a0This monastery is a visual display of the religious and cultural heritage of India and Buddhism.
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\nThe Gompa<\/strong> consists of the head Lama’s private apartment, a Dukhang<\/strong> (main temple and assembly hall) and the rooms of the Lamas and their attendants.\u00a0the Dukhang or main assembly hall, which contains a silver gilted chorten<\/strong>, seven feet high, erected by the present head Lama in the 1950s. The chorten contains a statue of the Buddha and various Buddhist texts.\u00a0smaller subshrines retain 400-year-old sandalwood statues.
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Images in Stakna Gompa<\/p><\/div>
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One of the beautiful Idol at Stakna<\/p><\/div>
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Wall painting in Stakna Gompa<\/p><\/div>
\nFrom the roof of monastery one can have beautiful views of upstream and downstream of Indus river and valley , bare slopes of Ladakh range in the North , snow-capped peaks and ridges of Zanskar range in the south .
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Stakna\u00a0Gompa\u00a0, monastery is\u00a0situated at 25 km from Leh city in the Indus valley\u00a0surrounded by beautiful snow-capped mountains. Stakna\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0means “Tiger’s Nose” \u00a0 is built about 500 years ago on the summit of an isolated high rock looks like a tiger nose , \u00a0in the middle of the Indus river on the left bank . It is … →<\/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":[2,3,4,11,12,14,19,21,25],"tags":[169,253,271,397,531,1106,1134,1355,1469,1529,1536,1898,2446,2709,2710,2712,2897,3123],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-himalayas","category-history","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-trekking","tag-arya-avalokitesvara-from-kamrup","tag-bardan","tag-beautiful","tag-buddha","tag-chosje-jamyang-palkar","tag-india","tag-indus-valley","tag-kharu","tag-ladakh","tag-leh","tag-leh-ladakh","tag-mud","tag-sani","tag-stakna-gompa","tag-stakna-gompa-monastery-leh","tag-stakrimo","tag-tiger-nose","tag-zanskar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}