Tapas Ghosh (tapasphotography/flickr.com); Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Gangtey Monastery
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| The Dalai Lama, Thurman, TibetHouse.us |
Perched on a small hill that rises from the valley floor, Gangteng Monastery (aka Gangtey Gonpa) is the only Nyingmapa monastery on the western side of Bhutan’s Black Mountain’s Phobjikha Valley.
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| View of Phobjikha Valley, aka Gangtey Valley, Bhutan, at sunset (Milon/Wiki) |
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| Padmasambhava Rinpoche (Wiki) |
It is also the biggest
Nyingmapa monastery in all of Buddhist Bhutan. The monastery is surrounded by a large
village inhabited mainly by families of the 140 gomchens who take
care of the monastery.
Gangteng was founded by Pema Trinley, the
grandson of Pema Lingpa, the famous Nyingmapa sage (bodhisattva) of Bhutan.
In 1613,
Pema Trinley established the monastery and became the first Gangteng Tulku (recognized incarnation of a prominent lama). The religious traditions of Pema Lingpa are still taught here.
The
second tulku, Tenzin Legpa Dondrup (1645-1726), enhanced the size of
Gangteng while keeping up good relations with the Drukpas and rebuilt the
monastery in the form of a dzong ("fortress"). More
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