Chemrey Monastery

Chemrey Monastery
Chemrey Monastery Location within India
Coordinates:	33°58′N 77°48′E / 33.967°N 77.8°E / 33.967; 77.8
Monastery information
Location	Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Founded by	Tagsang Raschen
Founded	1664
Type	Tibetan Buddhist
Sect	Drukpa
Dedicated to	Sengge Namgyal
Festivals	Sacred Dances - 28th and 29th day of the 9th month

Chemrey Monastery or Chemrey Gompa is a 1664 Buddhist monastery, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Leh, Ladakh, northern India. It belongs to the Drugpa monastic order and was founded by the Lama Tagsang Raschen and dedicated to King Sengge Namgyal.

The monastery has a notable high Padmasambhava statue. It also contains a valuable collection of scriptures, with title pages in silver and the text in gold letters.^[1] The monastery is also a venue for the festival of sacred dances which takes place on the 28th and 29th day of the 9th month of the Tibetan calendar every year.

References

1. ^ "Chemrey Gompa". Buddhist-temples.com. http://www.buddhist-temples.com/buddhist-monastery/ladakh/chemrey.html. Retrieved September 30, 2009.