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Trongsa Dzong, the largest dzong in Bhutan, is located in the centre of the country. Built on a spur overlooking the gorge of the Mangde chu, a temple was first established in 1543 by Lam Nagi Wangchuk son of Lama Ngawang Chhojey.
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སྒང་སྟེང་དགོན་པ།Gangtey Gonpa
was established in 1613 by Pema Lingpa's grandson Pema Thinley on a spur in the Black Mountains called the Gangteng Sang Nga Choling, which translate to Summit for the teaching of the Dharma.
The monastery lies on the peak hilltop at an altitude of 2800m offering a tremendous perspective of the incredible Phobjikha valley.
The monastery complex has five temples that surround the main central tower. The main hall called Tshokhang has been built in Tibetan architectural style. The hall is built with eight very large wooden pillars, which are to be the largest in Bhutan.
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སྐྱིད་ལ་བདེ་ཆེན་ཡང་རྩེ་དགོན་པ།Kila Dechen Yangtse Gonpa
སྐྱིད་ལ་བདེ་ཆེན་ཡང་རྩེ་དགོན་པ།Kila Dechen Yangtse Gonpa
Tenzin Norbu who was the 4th descendant of Drubthog Chekarwa bore two children, son Pow Dorji and daughter Dechhogma in Tibet. Pow Dorji became a learned saint, who was educated by Lhatshun Chhoki Jamtsho.
On the other hand, the daughter Dechhogma gave birth to two sons, namely Chhogyel Norbu and Tenpa who grew up to be popular saints, under Lam Ngawang Chhogyel. The two sons were destined to be in the Lho (southern) part of Tibet or the Moen Yuel.
Therefore, in the 16th century Chhogyel Norbu and Tenpa built Zarchen Samten Chholling and Kila Dechen Yangtse in Moen Yuel. On completion of these constructions they invited their uncle Pow Dorji from Tibet who resided in Kila Goenpa, initially known as Kila Dechen Yangtse. The cave in which he meditated is seen even today.
Pow Dorji with his two nephews spread the doctrine of Buddhism. Je-Jampel Sherub Gyeltshen who was the only son of Tenpa was the last descendant who later became a great saint with the teachings of Pel Sherab Singay and Bjetshen Jamyang Gyeltshen. He then spread the doctrine throughout the valley and resumed the disciplines and the teachings of Buddhism in Paro.
In the 19th century, Je Jampel Sherub Gyeltshen built a Lhakhang known as Gorikuenang Yoelzergang, which helped the people of Paro valley to learn the doctrine of Buddhism. During the time, the mind reincarnation of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, Ngawang Jigme Norbu stayed in Gorikuenang Yoelzergang Goenpa as the chief of the monastery.
Years later, Zhabdrung Jigme Norbu renovated the monastery, which still stands strong and attractive today.
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The revered eight century Goen Tshephu Ney is a sacred cave with a profound connection to Guru Rinpoche.
རྡོ་ཁ་སྐྱེས་དགོན་པ།Dokhachoe Gonpa
Sacred Dokhachoe Gonpa in Chukha, is a very popular pilgrimage site. Pilgrims from across the country come here to offer prayers to Lhamo Ekajati, known popularly as Aum Kangchim. It is believed that your every wish will come true if your prayers for Aum Kangchim are sincere.
Dokhachoe Gonpa was founded in 1650 by Choeje Thinley Jamtsho, a grandson of Phajo Drukgom Zhipo. Choeje Thinley Jamtsho was Zhabdrung’s drungchen, (secretary) who travelled through Chapcha after his return from Ladakh.
Choeje Thinley Jamtsho is said to have meditated in eight directions of the Lhakhang. And after three days of meditation from a cliff near the gonpa, it is said that he saw Khachoe Dakpai Zhingkham (a heavenly abode) through the cliff. Hence the name Dokhachoe Gonpa. Dokhachoe meaning “a boulder standing upright and facing the sky”
The gonpa is 4 kilometers from old highway at Damcho and at the highest point at Chapcha.
༅ གནས་ཆེན་གདོང་སྐོར་ལ།Neychen Dongkorla
Location: Paro
Altitude: 3711masl
Distance: 15 km away from Shaba.
Road connectivity: Feeder Road
Time: An hour and half drive
4 -5 hours up-hill hike
The monastery is located on scenic mountain top, where one can see both Paro and Thimphu valley.
The sacred Dongkorla gonpa was established by Terton Tshering Dorji, who is considered as an emanation of Vairotsana under the significance guidance of his spiritual tantric master Drubwang Rinchen Choedor who is reincarnation of Trulku Paljor Gyeltshen the heart son of Longchen Rabjam, the founder of Khewang Lhakhang in Phobjikha and Mendrup Geompa.
Visit this sacred sites atleast once in your life time!
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འབྲུག་ཟླ་གསུམ་པའི་ནང་ལུ་བོད་ལྷ་ས་གནས་བསྐོར་འགྱོ་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ བྱོན་ནི་ཐུགས་བཞེད་ཡོད་པའི་ དད་ཅན་ཚུ་གིས་ གཤམ་གསལ་འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཐོག་ལུ་འབྲེལ་བ་མཛད་གནང་།
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ཡོངས་ལ་དགོན་པ། Yongla Goenpa
Yongla Goenpa or Yongla Riwo Pelbar Dargeychholing Goenpa in Pemagatshel sits majestically on a mountaintop resembling phurba (ritual dagger), overlooking the valleys of Samdrupjongkhar and the plains of Assam. It is prominently visible from Tshelingkhor on the Trashigang-Samdrupjongkhar highway.
Kheydrup Jigme Kuendrel from Darlukha, Thimphu before he became the disciple of the master Rigdzen Jigme Lingpa, served as Garpa & assigned the charge of the meat store keeper in Trongsa Choetse Dzong. After several years of slaughtering countless animals, inevitably led to regrets & sorrow and finally absconded from service.
Then he embark his journey to Samye Chimpu where he met the Treasures-discoverer Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa and fell at his feet. At that time the first Petseling Rinpoche, Drupthob Namgyal Lhundrup was there receiving teachings from Jigme Lingpa. Since he too hailed from Thimphu area, the Drupthob showered deep affection on him during their stay together. Eventually, he received the pith instruction and accomplished the entire Longchen Nyingthig teachings. He specialized in the practices of Pongwa Samten (order of abandonment) for about fifteen years and realized the reasoning of everything.
He was then instructed by his master, to proceed to Lhomon, where the abode of Vajra indicating wrath existed (Yongla Gonpa).
He mistook Tang Thowa Drak for Yongla Gonpa and went to live there. He meditated there for three years and then went to live at Wangthang, Ura. Realizing that the temple prophesied was not at this place, he went to see the Drupthob Namgyal Lhundrup from whom he received many teachings. Then not long after, Norbu Pekar of Dhungsum Norbuling, a devotee of Petsel Ling Rinpoche sent a request that he conducting the Dhutsi Mendrub ceremony at Dhungsum Kidpi Jong.
Drupthob Namgyal Lhundrup was unable to embark on such a long journey and sent Kheydrup, conferring on him the title and p
ཟུར་མཁར་རྡོ། ZURKHAR DO
THE MEETING OF GURU RINPOCHE & THE KING TRISONG DETSEN
སྟོད་ལུང་མདར་བྱོན་གཞོང་པའི་ལྷ་ཆུ་བཏོན།།
ཟུར་མཁར་ཆུའི་འགྲམ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཁོར་བཅས་མཇལ།།
ཕྱག་ལ་མ་འཆམས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མགུར་བཞེངས་ཤིང་།།
རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་མཐུ་ཡིས་དད་བསྐྱེད་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།།
At Drakmar’s Tamarisk Grove, the king came forth to greet me, ༔
And although he was emperor, an emanation of Manjushri, ༔
The veil of his human birth was extremely dense, ༔
And so he failed to see my qualities in full. ༔
High and mighty, full of pride, the king’s attitude was offensive. ༔
Therefore I sang a song of my greatness and displayed my magic. ༔
The emperor’s faith was kindled; he bowed down low ༔
And presented a throne of gold and gifts in great abundance. ༔
All of Tibet’s gods and humans then came to pay their respects ༔
- Revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
AT A GLANCE
It was here at Zurkhar Do, on the banks of the mighty Tsangpo River, that the long awaited meeting between Lopen Pema Jungney and King Trisong Detsen occurred. The king, thinking his guest would bow at his feet, was rightfully humbled when the Guru Rinpoche refused to lower his head, demonstrating the supremacy of the Dharma in the face of worldly authority.
THE STORY
After repeated invitations and many months of waiting, King Trisong Detsen finally met Guru Padmasambahva for the first time here, at Zurkhar Do (Confluence of the Twin Castle). When the Tibetan King approached Guru Rinpoche, however, it was with a royal air of haughtiness; the exchange that ensued points to a crucial moment of taming––where the teacher humbles his student’s pride and so prepares the field of his min
༺Boeney Kharchendra༻
📿Lopen Pema Jungney came from Samye Pelphu and meditated here a year to subdue the most harmful demon of Tibet at Karchendra Hike to Kharchen Drak (Khar - House, Chen - Big, Drak - Cliff).
📿Later Dupthop Ugyen Yoeser had a vision that Guru Rinpoche instructed him to open the Ney for the benefit of all the sentient beings.
🚗Drive about 45 minutes from Trashiyangtse town to Daktsa village through the boompy farm road.
👣Hike uphill for about 3 hours.
