Tuesday, 19 July 2011

At the Top of the World

A View of the Tsemo Monastery from Shanti Stupa

At the Leh palace entrance, pause and look up. You'll spy the ruins of a fort built by King Tashi Namgyal in the 16th century on Namgyal Tsemo ('Peak of Victory'). Its gonkhang (‘temple of guardian deities’) is still used by worshippers. Folklore has it that the king entombed bodies of the invading Mongols in the temple's foundations to ward off future attacks. Just don't go digging to prove anything.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/leh--at-the-top-of-the-world.html?page=4
 


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