Sacred Places
27 places found
BuddhismTashiding Monastery
Tashiding · India · monastery
High on a heart-shaped ridge above the meeting of the Rathong Chu and Rangeet rivers, Tashiding Monastery is revered across Sikkim as its spiritual heart, a Nyingma seat founded in the seventeenth century in the shadow of Kanchenjunga. Pilgrims climb past a long line of carved mani stones to reach the Guru Lhakhang, the inner Temple of Guru Rinpoche himself.
BuddhismTashi Gomang Shedra Buddhist Monastery
· India · monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal, India, established by monks in the tradition of the Dalai Lama and home to a soaring hundred-foot stupa attributed to the venerated Lama Kalu Rinpoche.
BuddhismTsuklakhang Royal Chapel and Monastery
Gangtok · India · monastery
The Royal Chapel and Monastery of Sikkim's Chogyal kings, standing on Gangtok's Ridge as both a working Buddhist sanctuary and the ceremonial heart of a vanished Himalayan kingdom.