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Early modern · Buddhist · India
Basgo Monastery
Basgo, Leh, Ladakh · 34.2200°, 77.2800°
Maitreya BuddhaNamgyal—
Sacred since
1680 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1680 (Namgyal)
Namgyal
History & significance
Temples of Maitreya standing on the hill above the ruins of old Basgo, established in 1680 under the Namgyal rulers on a site that already carried a fifteenth-century palace. Basgo was an early political and cultural centre of Ladakh and figures repeatedly in the Ladakhi Chronicles; its Buddha images and murals are its best-known feature.