Lamayuru monastery

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The Lamayuru monastery from the west

The Lamayuru Monastery or Yuru Monastery ( Tibetan བླ་ མ་ གཡུང་ དྲུང་ དགོན་པ་ Wylie bla ma gyung drung dgon pa "Eternal Monastery", Urdu > لمیرو گومپ) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lamayuru , Ladakh , India . It is located on National Highway 1D 15 km east of Fotu La at an altitude of 3,510 m.

history

According to oral tradition, the Lamayuru monastery was originally the most important Bon monastery in Ladakh. His name means swastika , a popular bon symbol for eternity. Yungdrung is the name of the most popular school of Bon. It is currently associated with the Drikung Kagyu school of Buddhism.

The Drikung story says that Naropa (956-1041) founded the monastery after causing a lake that filled the valley to dry up. The oldest building in the monastery is the Seng-ge-sgang Temple at the southern end of Lamayuru Rock. The temple is attributed to the monk Rinchen Sangpo (958-1055). Rinchen Sangpo was commissioned by the King of Ladakh to build 108 gompas. Without a doubt, many gompas in Ladakh, the Spiti valley and the surrounding area are from this period.

The monastery originally consisted of five buildings, and remnants of the four corner buildings can still be seen today.

Lamayuru is one of the largest and oldest monasteries in Ladakh. Today around 150 monks live in the monastery. In the past there were up to 400 monks, many of whom lived in monasteries in the vicinity.

In Lamayuru there are two Cham mystery festivals every year in the second and fifth month of the Tibetan lunar calendar. Then all the monks from the surrounding monasteries gather to pray together.

The nearby Wanla Monastery is a sub-monastery of the Lamayuru Monastery.

gallery

  • Masked dancer

  • Altars and statues

  • Meditation room

  • Portal and frescoes

  • King Yulkhor Sung

  • Reliefs and prayer wheels

  • View from above

literature

  • OC Handa: Buddhist Monasteries in Himachal Pradesh. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi 1987, ISBN 81-85182-03-5 .
  • Harish Kapadia: Spiti: Adventures in the Trans-Himalaya. Second edition. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 81-7387-093-4 .
  • Janet Rizvi: Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia. Second edition. Oxford University Press, Delhi 1996, ISBN 0-19-564546-4 .
  • Alexander Cunningham: LADĀK: Physical, Statistical, and Historical with Notices of the Surrounding Countries. London 1854. Reprinted by Sagar Publications (1977).
  • AH Francke: A History of Ladakh. (Originally published as A History of Western Tibet. 1907). 1977 edition with a critical introduction and comments from SS Gergan and FM Hassnain. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi.
  • AH Francke: Antiquities of Indian Tibet. Two volumes. Calcutta 1914. Reprinted in 1972: S. Chand, New Delhi.
  • Sarina Singh et al .: India . 12th edition. Lonely Planet, 2007, ISBN 978-1-74104-308-2 .
  • Margaret and Rolf Schettler: Kashmir, Ladakh & Zanskar. Lonely Planet, South Yarra Vic./Australia 1981.
  • Giuseppe Tucci: Rin-chen-bzan-po and the Renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet Around the Millenium. First Italian edition from 1932. First English translation draft by Nancy Kipp Smith under the direction of Thomas J. Pritzker. Published by Lokesh Chandra. English edition of Indo-Tibetica II. Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi 1988, ISBN 81-85179-21-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lamayuru Monastery  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francke (preface from 1907), pp. 52–53.
  2. ↑ a b Francke (1914), Volume 1, pp. 96-98
  3. ↑ Schettler & Schettler (1981), p. 100, p. 102.

Coordinates: 34 ° 16 ′ 58 ″  N , 76 ° 46 ′ 28 ″  E