{"id":2271,"date":"2014-06-17T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T03:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T03:33:26","slug":"rizong-gompa-monastery-leh-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/rizong-gompa-monastery-leh-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rizong Gompa, Monastery, Leh, Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The Rizong Gompa<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0is also known as the\u00a0Yuma Changchubling \u00a0<\/strong>is situated at a distance of about 73 km from the Leh town. It\u00a0\u00a0was established by the great Lama Tsultim Nima<\/strong> in the year 1831. It belongs to the Gelukpa Order , <\/strong>there are about 40 monks live here , follow a strict rule of not\u00a0to have anything on their person, except for religious robes and books.\u00a0The monastery is also called \u201cthe paradise for meditation\u201d<\/strong> and is noted for its extremely strict rules and standards.
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Rizong Gompa, Monastery, Ladakh<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Monastery was built in 1831 along with many shrines within it\u00a0\u00a0for which the villagers \u00a0provided voluntary labour and donations \u00a0during construction\u00a0\u00a0at a place known as Ri-rdzong<\/strong> since\u00a0the place had adequate water supply and fuel availability. \u00a0the monastery has three large chambers. In two of these chambers idols of \u00a0Lord Buddha\u00a0have been consecrated, the third chamber is having a Stupa\u00a0\u00a0There are three group of people in here , first group is Lamas( Monks) , second group is Chomos and third group is of ordinary residents\u00a0\u00a0the duties of each group and their interrelationships are well defined.
\nThe nunnery, located about 2\u00a0km from the monastery, is called the \u201cJelichun Nunnery\u201d<\/strong> or Chulichan<\/strong> (Chomoling<\/strong>) \u00a0\u00a0the young nuns who are more educated \u00a0took to religious curriculum of meditation and Tibetan philosophy, while the older nuns toiled on the fields\u00a0\u00a0The nuns are also trained in spinning, oil extraction from Apricot \u00a0nuts and milking cows.
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Entrance Rizong Gompa, Monastery Ladakh<\/p><\/div>
\nThe Monastery has the distinct reputation of upholding “the Vinaya rules in strict sense of the term”, so much so that the Lamas of this monastery do not indulge in performances of mask dances or with undue rites and rituals.
\nThe monastery has the distinction of having two incarnate ,\u00a0Lama Tsultim Nima<\/strong> and his son Sras Rinpoche<\/strong> ,\u00a0the former is the head of the monastery,\u00a0and the latter is the Abbot \u00a0of ‘rgyud-smad Dratsang<\/strong>‘.\u00a0The Abbott will be elevated to the rank of Dga-ldan Khirpa<\/strong>, the chief of all Tibeten\u00a0scholastics, after completing a term of two years .
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\u00a0The Rizong Gompa\u00a0\u00a0is also known as the\u00a0Yuma Changchubling \u00a0is situated at a distance of about 73 km from the Leh town. It\u00a0\u00a0was established by the great Lama Tsultim Nima in the year 1831. It belongs to the Gelukpa Order , there are about 40 monks live here , follow a strict rule of not\u00a0to have … →<\/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":[30,31,527,541,641,753,1469,1501,1529,1584,1858,2312,2315,2359,2676,2866,3118],"class_list":["post-2271","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-jelichun-nunnery","tag-the-paradise-for-meditation","tag-chomoling","tag-chulichan","tag-dga-ldan-khirpa","tag-entrance-rizong-gompa","tag-ladakh","tag-lama-tsultim-nima","tag-leh","tag-lord-buddha","tag-monastery-ladakh","tag-rgyud-smad-dratsang","tag-ri-rdzong","tag-rizong-gompa","tag-sras-rinpoche","tag-the-rizong-gompa","tag-yuma-changchubling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}