{"id":2269,"date":"2014-07-02T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:30:40","slug":"rangdum-gompamonastery-suru-valley-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/rangdum-gompamonastery-suru-valley-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangdum Gompa,Monastery, Suru valley, Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rangdum Gompa<\/strong> , Tibetan Buddhist monastery belongs to the Gelugpa sect <\/strong>administered from Karsha Gompa<\/strong>, situated at a height of \u00a03,657 m (11,998\u00a0ft) on top of a small but steep \u00a0hill \u00a0at the head of the Suru Valley<\/strong>, in Ladakh. The monastery is built over a\u00a0hillock\u00a0, entrenched around by the bifurcated route of a mountain stream. The Rangdum Gompa of Ladakh gives the appearance of an age-old fortification<\/strong>. It was built 200 years ago by Gelek Yashi Takpa<\/strong> in the period of King Tsewang Mangyul<\/strong> .\u00a0<\/em>
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Rangdum Gompa, Monastery, Zanskar, Ladakh<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Rangdum is 130 km. from Kargil at far end of isolated part of \u00a0Suru valley it is on a mid way to Padum and Kargil.\u00a0On one side are the colorful hills while on the other side are rocky mountains and Glaciers .\u00a0The small mani walls here and towards Padum are more ornate than in Ladakh , some of the stones are carved not only with the usual “Om Mani Padme Hum “<\/strong> mantra but also with pictures of chortens and mandalas .\u00a0\u00a0It is next to the tiny village of Julidok<\/strong>, and about 25 km from the Pensi-La<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0which leads into Zanskar valley,\u00a0\u00a0it is physically in the Suru Valley, but culturally part of Zanskar
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Holy Scripts kept at Rangdum Gompa Zanskar, Ladakh<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Rangdum Monastery of Ladakh owns the entire valley around it , there are more than 50 Monks who depend upon the offerings of grains and butter from the villages \u00a0, the \u00a0villagers who tilled the\u00a0fields\u00a0are\u00a0decedents of serf-tenants of the monastery.\u00a0The small villages of Yuldo<\/strong> and Julidok<\/strong>, at the end of the valley are entirely Buddhist. The people are socially and culturally part of Zanskar and support the \u00a0Rangdum Monastery,The country surrounding\u00a0\u00a0is very bleak\u00a0crops sometimes cannot ripen in the brief summer. The locals depend on their flocks and supplies from lower down the Suru Valley<\/strong> from Kargil or over the pass from Zanskar.\u00a0\u00a0it is also the destination of the nomadic herds people called Bakaarwals<\/strong>, who trek up every year from the Himalayan foothills from\u00a0around Jammu area<\/strong>\u00a0, bringing their flocks of sheep and goats to grow fat on the rich summer growth of grass.
\nThe road conditions are very bad near Rangdum.\u00a0\u00a0There is no access to electricity, phone or internet.
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