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Zanskar, Kargil, Ladakh · 33.2684°, 77.1795°
A Gelug monastery built like a honeycomb into a cliff in remote Zanskar, founded in the early fifteenth century by Jangsem Sherap Zangpo, a disciple of Tsongkhapa, around a cave held to have sheltered sages long before. It houses about seventy monks with a monastic school, a Tibetan medical clinic and a library of rare texts.
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.
The founder's powers are said to have made a spring run from the cave, a tree grow on top of it and the cave itself grow larger.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Gelug
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