Zangla Monastery
| Zangla Monastery | |
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 Sándor Kőrösi Csoma who studied the Tibetan language at the monastery in 1823-4 | |
  Zangla Monastery Location within India | |
| Coordinates: | 33°40′12″N 76°58′48″E / 33.67000°N 76.98000°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Tsa-zar, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Gelug |
| Number of monks | 150 |
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Zangla Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the village of Tsa-zar near Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, northern India.
Zangla Monastery is home to around 150 lamas and is located near a ruined hilltop castle and an old nunnery. It has some notable wall paintings. Zangla is the central point on the Padum-Stongdey-Zangla-Karsha-Padum trip, covering most of the cultural sites of Zanskar including the Zangla monastery.[1]
The Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma edited the first English-Tibetan dictionary while living at Zangla Monastery in 1823. The dictionary was published in 1824.[2]
References
- ↑ "Zangla". Bharatonline. Retrieved November 21, 2009.
- ↑ Lussier, Mark, Enlightenment East and West:An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism, Arizona State University
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