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Milarepa's Cave is a cave where the Tibetan legend Milarepa spent many years of his life in the eleventh century, 10km north of Nyalam in the roadside near a tiny village called Zhonggang in Tibet. A path leads down from the roadside through the village and down a hillside where a small monastery named Pyenzhangling has been built on which Milarepa's cave is entered from its vestibule. Pilgrim's offerings of decorated stones along the path and sweet-smelling herbs and wild flowers growing all around make this a place of great peace and beauty. The cave itself is kept as a shrine by two monks, guarding a statue of the Tibetan legend enclosed in a glass case. Restoration work within the cave and the monastery was undertaken by artists and craftsmen from Nepal and was financed by the Chinese government in the 1970's.
