Ganden Monastery Photo Gallery by lcurran at pbase.com

Ganden Monastery

Ganden Monastery lies 45 kilometres east of Lhasa. It’s a beautiful ride along the Lhasa River Valley (the Lhasa R. links with the Brahmaputra River – which also flows by Lhasa – and eventually flows into India) – both rivers having clean, glacial water much like one sees in the Rockies.

The monastery sits atop the mountainside at about 4267 metres (c. 14,000 feet) and is the first of the monasteries built by the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat sect under Tsong Khapa (or Zongkapa) in 1409. It is, in fact, the central monastery of this sect of Tibetan Buddhism. There used to be between 3500 and 4000 monks there before 1951; now there are only 400 and limited to that size by the government.
The monastery was completely destroyed following the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the subsequent events of the Cultural Revolution. Since the 1980s, it is being re-built and in use.

Ganden Monastery	The Long and Winding Road Up to Ganden Monastery	Yak	XIMG_3621.jpg
Founder Tsong Khapa's Retreat House	Main Temple	XIMG_1943.jpg	XIMG_1945.jpg
XIMG_1948.jpg	XIMG_1952.jpg	XIMG_1962.jpg	XIMG_1973.jpg
Main Hall	XIMG_3635.jpg	Image of Founder Tsong Khapa	XIMG_3639.jpg
XIMG_3655.jpg	Kunlun Mountain Range	Lhasa Valley	XIMG_2058.jpg
Directions	Trail to Sky Burial Site	Stupa - Lama's Burial Site	View from Sky Burial Site
Sky Burial Site	Tools of the Trade	Cause and Effect	Tsong Khapa's Retreat House
Main Square	XIMG_3795.jpg	Retrieving Water	Happy in His Work
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