Phugtal Monastery Gompa Monastery

We have to acquaint you with the traditional gompa in northern India and southern China. Then it was a monastery Key Gompa. Today we have another of the at least unique mountain monastery, founded about nine centuries ago.

The founder of the monastery is Hans Sherab Sampo. Translated from the Chinese, the name Phugtal Monastery, meaning "through the cave." It is located in the canyon of the river Lungnak. The basis of building up clay and wood. Until the first half of the XIX-th century, the monastery Phugtal Monastery, Gompa was hidden from civilization, yet there was not Alexander Kёrёshi Choma. Distance helps seventy monks easily disengage from the outside world. Phugtal Monastery, Gompa yavlyaets one of the few Buddhist monasteries, which can be reached only on foot.