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Punakha, Punakha · 27.5270°, 89.8782°
A small temple on a round hillock near Lobesa, founded in 1499 by Ngawang Chogyal, fourteenth abbot of Ralung, on a site blessed by his cousin Drukpa Kunley. It is Bhutan's best known fertility shrine: women come for blessings to conceive and for names for unborn children, and pilgrims are touched on the head with a wooden phallus that Kunley is said to have brought from Tibet.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Tradition holds that Drukpa Kunley subdued a demoness here with his magic thunderbolt of wisdom and sealed her in a rock, and that he and his dog Sachi passed into heaven, their reclining images now enshrined in the prayer hall.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Drukpa Kagyu
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