Friday, June 26, 2009

Tawang Monastery....Galden Namggyal Lhatse


Tawang monastery was founded by Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in the year 1860-61 A.D. It is an epitome of Buddhist archi tecture and belongs to Gelukpa section. It also hols the distinction of being the birth place of 6th Dalai Lama.It is the largest monastery in our country and the second largest in Asia.A massive richly adorned statue of LORD BUDDHA stands in the middle-the statue is seated on a platform and its body rising up ends up in a huge head above the first floor.
The inside walls are painted with murals of various divinities .
It also houses a rich collection of invaluable manuscripts.This one is a 300year old golden-scripture.
The monastery has a centre for Buddhist Cultural Studies-the place where the young monks are taught Arithmetic,English,Hindi besides monastic education.It has a capacity of housing 700 monks.
The monastery is so vastly expanded that it is difficult to write about it in short......i have more than 50 photoghraphs and it was very difficult to choose.

15 comments:

  1. beautiful site, I visited many of these in my trip to Japan when we went there to pick up my missionary son in hiroshima. fascinating art especially the huge buddhas. thanks for a fun historical educational post.

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  2. What vivid colors and decorating.

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  3. this is beautiful, the colors, the details, the shapes... WOW

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  4. It is amazing how people have adorned temples, churches, and cathedrals with religious art. Simply beautiful. This rivals the Sistine Chapel in Italy with all of its murals. These days, one does not see much modern art devoted to a particular religion. Too bad.

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  5. nice blog,nice feelig.nice pictures.congrets.

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  6. aapka blog sabse anokha hai...
    aapko dher saree badhaiyan.....

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  7. This is incredible! Thank you for showing it to us. The colors are breathtaking.

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  8. bosss.it's me kavita who has to thank u 4 all the encouragement..i keep looking at the buddha statue in this post..simply gr8 yar..dunno..when u r down, just look at a buddha statue u feel rejuvenated by the composure i think..dunno...cheers friend..v r friends 4 ever..insha allah..

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  9. this sounds like an interesting place to visit. you mentioned you have several pics, do you have them uploaded anywhere else, such a flickr? if so, and you're comfortable with it, maybe you could share the url.

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  10. kavita ji this is beautiful, very well writen with wonderful photographs.

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  11. kavita ji....
    photographs vakai main itne khoobsoorat hain ki inhen bar-bar dekhne ka man karta hai...

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  12. Wow wonderful kavita,beautiful snaps and lovely colours.Can't take out my eyes from buddha statue :)

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  13. Feels interesting to know about the "Tawang Monastery" and you gave such useful description of its history.

    The photos are simply awesome. So bright and colourful they are... And you have more than 50 of them? Wish you could share more of them in your future posts on "Tawang Monastery" :)

    Cheers Kavitaji, your blog is really a tourist's delight :)

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