Buddhist Travel
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Canvas Tote Bag Black " Barcode Buddhist " Religion Sale Price: $9.99  |
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This is a great tote bag. Very useful . Ideal for daily use and anytime ! . All TopExpressions products are made under strict quality controls. 100% canvas cotton. |
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Canvas Tote Bag Black " Barcode Buddhist Lamaist " Religion Sale Price: $9.99 |
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This is a great tote bag. Very useful . Ideal for daily use and anytime ! . All TopExpressions products are made under strict quality controls. 100% canvas cotton. |
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Canvas Tote Bag Black " Barcode Lamaistic Buddhist " Religion Sale Price: $9.99 |
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This is a great tote bag. Very useful . Ideal for daily use and anytime ! . All TopExpressions products are made under strict quality controls. 100% canvas cotton. |
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Buddhist Monastery - Dabei Monastery LED NIGHT LIGHT Sale Price: $18.49 |
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This is a wonderful night light! This light makes a very unique gift and perfect as a stocking stuffer, office gift, or grab bag gift. This is a very popular light and will look great in any room in your house! This photographic image is printed in the USA using high quality inks... |
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Russia Night Light - Buddhist Temple - Russian Sale Price: $14.99 |
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This is a wonderful night light! This light makes a very unique gift and perfect as a stocking stuffer, office gift, or grab bag gift. This is a very popular light and will look great in any room in your house! This photographic image is printed in the USA using high quality inks... |
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Buddhist Monastery - Dabei Monastery Sale Price: $14.99 |
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This is a wonderful night light! This light makes a very unique gift and perfect as a stocking stuffer, office gift, or grab bag gift. This is a very popular light and will look great in any room in your house! This photographic image is printed in the USA using high quality inks... |
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Travel Altar Box, Golden Bodhi; 4" X 6" Sale Price: $36.00 |
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A hand-made offering box containing a small Buddha statue, scarf, mala (rosary), candle, incense, and burner. |
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Travel Altar Featuring Medicine Buddha, 10" x 7" Sale Price: $6.96 |
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Travel Altar featuring Medicine Buddha, 10"x7". Ideal for home or when you're on the road, this altar will help to create a sense of the sacred wherever you are. Includes mantra and information on back. |
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Golden Bodhi Travel Altar Box Sale Price: $38.95 |
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The beautiful hand gilded leaf that graces the top of this box is a bodhi leaf, the Buddhist symbol for pure and boundless wisdom. Open the box and an assortment of enlightening treasures can be found including an herbal Buddha, greeting scarf, votive, herbal mala, nag champa incense and burner |
Ladakh Monasteries: Retaining The Age Old Buddhist Practices
Buddhist Monasteries are the key attractions to the tourists visiting the beautiful valley of Ladakh. Monasteries or Gompas are ancient structures, where Buddhist monks and nuns live, study and practice their religion. Almost all of these historic monasteries are situated in scenic locations, on hills and mountains. Tourists visit these places very frequently and admire the architecture and art collection here. The greatest concentration of major Buddhist monasteries or gompas can be found in the central Ladakh.
These main centres for worship, isolated meditation and religion teaching belong to either the Red Hat sect or the Yellow-Hat sect of Tibetan monasticism. Over twelve monasteries are situated near the Indus, out of which the Lamayuru is considered the oldest monastery. It has been a sacred site for the pre-Buddhist religion known as Bon. These Gompas are undoubtedly beautiful and splendorous, but are perched dangerously on the edge of craggy mountain faces or rocks. A few popular monasteries/gompas in Ladakh are:
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Alchi
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Namgyal Tsemo
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Sankar
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Shanti Stupa
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Likir
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Spituk
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Cave Monastery
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Thiksey
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Stok Palace
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Shey
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Lamayuru
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Phugtal
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Leh Palace
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Zongkhul
Apart from that, Phiyang, Hemis and Chemrey are a few other ancient monasteries that were founded under the patronage of members of the ruling Namgyal dynasty. It is suggested to cover your limbs and take off the shoes while entering the monasteries. Prior permission should be taken for photography inside the monasteries and drinking or smoking is stricly prohibited. A head is appointed in every monastery, who is called the 'Kushak', which literally means a 'Reincarnation'. Your tour to Ladakh monasteries showcases the rarest collection of Buddhist relics like thankas, murals, sculptures, scriptures, etc.
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Travel to Ladakh monasteries to explore the age old Buddhist culture and traditions. Leh Ladakh tourism is an ideal shot for history buffs, nature lovers and religious minded people. Ladakh travel guide provides the best of Ladakh monasteries information.
