Phugtal Monastery
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Phugtal Monastery
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 Phugtal Monastery
Location within India
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| Coordinates: | 33°16′N 77°11′E / 33.267°N 77.183°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Founded by | Gangsem Sherap Sampo |
| Founded | Early 12th century |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Drukpa |
| No. of monks | 70 monks |
Phugtal Monastery or Phugtal Gompa (often trasliterated as Phuktal) is a monastery in south-eastern Zanskar, Ladakh in northern India.
Founded by Gangsem Sherap Sampo in the early 12th century, the monastery is a unique construction built into the cliffside like a honeycomb. It located on the mouth of a cave on the cliff face of a lateral gorge of a major tributary of the Lungnak (Lingti-Tsarap) River.
Home to about 70 monks the monastery has a library and prayer rooms. A stone tablet reminds of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös author of the first English-Tibetan dictionary who explored Ladakh and visited in 1826-27.
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- Ladakh-Kashmir
- Photos taken in the kitchen of Phugtal Monastery
- Portraits of monks at Phugtal Monastery
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