{"id":2215,"date":"2014-07-11T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:30:21","slug":"sani-gompa-monastery-zanskar-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/sani-gompa-monastery-zanskar-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sani Gompa, Monastery , Zanskar,Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sani\u00a0Gompa Monastery<\/strong> of Ladakh also known as Turtot Gyat<\/strong>\u00a0situated on the road to Kargil, at a distance of approximately 6 km to the west of Padum<\/strong>.\u00a0belongs to\u00a0the Drukpa Kagyupa School<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0it is believed that the monastery was associated with Kanishka, Kushan ruler<\/strong> of 2nd century AD because of \u00a0the Kanika Stupa<\/strong> in the back yard and construction like a fort,\u00a0\u00a0the gompa is not built on a hill or mountain but on flat land. It is in the form of a castle<\/strong> and the Kanishka chorten<\/strong> is in the backyard of the enclosing stone walls with chortens mounted at intervals. Next to the Kanishka chorten are ten standing stones with engravings of deities in a pre-Tibetan style.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The entire Sani Monastery of Ladakh has been constructed in\u00a0parts, each dating back to a different century. The chorten inside the oldest part of Sani Monastery is believed to be erected in the 2nd century AD. On the other hand, the Dukhang (assembly hall)<\/strong> of the monastery is said to be constructed in the early 17th century.
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Sani Gompa , Monastery<\/p><\/div>
\nthe famous Indian Yogi Naropa.<\/strong> It is believed that the Yogi meditated under the Kanishka Stupa<\/strong>, situated in the backyard of the monastery. The same spot, where the Yogi<\/strong> sat in meditation, now houses a small room with a veiled bronze statue of the Yogi<\/strong>. It is on displayed on the eve of the Naro-Nasjal Festival<\/strong> every year in late July \u00a0or \u00a0in the first week of August, between the 15th and the 20th of the sixth Tibetan month. It takes place during the blooming of the \u00a0Guru Neropa Flower<\/strong>,\u00a0the Lamas from Bardan Monastery<\/strong> perform masked dances as ritual offering.\u00a0a magnificent plantation of huge old poplars adjoining the gompa is unusual as this region is mostly treeless
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Stupa at Sani Gompa back yard<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Dukhang<\/strong> (assembly hall) of the monastery is said to be constructed in the early 17th century.\u00a0The central praying hall is situated in the main building of the monastery and stands ornamented with a rich collection of the statues of popular Buddhist divinities and Kargud-pa high lamas ,t<\/strong>he walls of the praying hall are\u00a0decorated\u00a0with frescoes and Thangkas<\/strong>.\u00a0The Assembly Hall or Dukhang has 16 columns and houses images of Chamba, Chenren and Padmasambhava<\/strong> as well as others. Behind the altar is the Gongkhang<\/strong>, a small room containing an ancient figure of Cho Rinpoche<\/strong>
\nThis place is also among the \u00a0eight most important cremation grounds of Tibetan Buddhists is outside the monastery complex and the cemetery is ringed with ancient rock-carvings which show Indian influences there is also a\u00a0\u00a0two metre high boulder with a painting of Maitrya on it \u00a0the pilgrims pour the sacrificial oil over it .
\nDrukpa \u00a0Kargyu school<\/strong> \u00a0is the only one of this order in Zanskar which has nuns,\u00a0A group of Kargyu nuns<\/strong> established a small retreat centre at\u00a0Starkhugnza<\/strong>\u00a0in the 1990s , \u00a0It is a site above Sani which was founded by Ngawang Tsering<\/strong> (1657-1732), a famous Zanskar meditator.
\nOne can see the white opening to a cave in a cliff across the river from the monastery where Padmasambhava<\/strong> is also said to have meditated for several years and it is still used as a meditation cell
\nEvery year in the winters a Great Prayer Festival is held in which the \u00a0firewood provided by villagers of the surrounding villages in which prayers from the Tibetan holy books are chanted.
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Sani\u00a0Gompa Monastery of Ladakh also known as Turtot Gyat\u00a0situated on the road to Kargil, at a distance of approximately 6 km to the west of Padum.\u00a0belongs to\u00a0the Drukpa Kagyupa School,\u00a0\u00a0it is believed that the monastery was associated with Kanishka, Kushan ruler of 2nd century AD because of \u00a0the Kanika Stupa in the back yard 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":[2,3,4,11,12,13,14,16,18,19,21,22,25,27],"tags":[53,255,511,525,715,717,937,1098,1125,1271,1272,1273,1299,1300,1456,1469,1982,2012,2085,2088,2447,2448,2716,2837,2951,3123],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-himalayas","category-history","category-humanity","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-monuments","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-trekking","category-wildlife","tag-ad","tag-bardan-monastery","tag-chenren","tag-cho-rinpoche","tag-drukpa-kagyupa-school","tag-drukpa-kargyu-school","tag-guru-neropa-flower","tag-images-of-chamba","tag-indian-yogi-naropa","tag-kanika-stupa","tag-kanishka","tag-kanishka-stupa","tag-kargud-pa-high-lamas","tag-kargyu-nuns","tag-kushan-ruler","tag-ladakh","tag-naro-nasjal-festival","tag-ngawang-tsering","tag-padmasambhava","tag-padum","tag-sani-gompa","tag-sani-monastery","tag-starkhugnza","tag-thangkas","tag-turtot-gyat","tag-zanskar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}