Lingkor (Hut Mountain)

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At the beginning of the path

The Lingkor von Hüttenberg in the Görtschitztal in Lower Carinthia is a Tibetan pilgrimage route .

It is built into the rock face opposite the Heinrich Harrer Museum . The name refers to the Lingkhor in Lhasa , the pilgrimage route around the city and three of its four main temples ( Ling ; Lingkhor 'around the Lings').

investment

Looking back at the Harrer Museum

The freely accessible Lingkor invites you to get to know Tibetan culture. He cites numerous sacred small buildings along Chorten (Buddhist stupas), Mani walls , video walls , prayer niches , prayer wheels , and the like. An accompanying book is available at the museum ticket office opposite. The correct migration - in the tradition of Lamaism - is clockwise .

Most of the path itself consists of steel stairs. The inspection is at your own risk.

  • Spiral staircase of the Lingkor

  • Heiligenwand

  • Large-scale representation of the Buddha

  • Prayer wheels

  • Niche with Buddha statuettes

history

Hüttenberg is the place of birth and residence of the mountaineer, explorer, geographer and author Heinrich Harrer, who died in 2006 . He was also the teacher of the 14th  Dalai Lama Tendzin Gyatsho and the two of them had a close friendship throughout their lives. This was also the reason for the construction of the Lingkor in Hüttenberg. It originally belonged to the major project of a university for Tibetan medicine and philosophy with an attached hotel under governor Jörg Haider , but this failed due to funding. Later - in 2008 - a non-religious Tibetan educational institute was realized with the Tibet Center Institute above in Knappenberg under the auspices of the Dalai Lama.

The steel construction comes from the forge Helmut Unterweger from Althofen . Peter Schallaschek from Klagenfurt is responsible for the technical planning . The artistic design was the responsibility of the academic painter Werner Engelmann from Steinsdorf in Bavaria. The Dalai Lama blessed this pilgrimage route during his visit to Hüttenberg on October 23, 2002.

In 2015, the path was extensively renovated after a landslide. The financing came from the sale of the Harrer house by the municipality.

Web links

Commons : Huettenberg Lingkor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Bacher: The end of a Carinthian dream. In: Die Zeit , No. 15, April 3, 2008 ( temporarily online , 3 parts).
  2. ↑ a b Lingkor should be accessible again in September. In: Kleine Zeitung online, August 22, 2015.

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '11.2 "  N , 14 ° 32' 50.9"  E