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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.
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