Phuktal Monastic School

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Phuktal Monastic School
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Location
Location	Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Country	India
Location within the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India Show map of Ladakh Phuktal Monastic School (India) Show map of India
Geographic coordinates	33°16′N 77°11′E / 33.267°N 77.183°E / 33.267; 77.183
Architecture
Founder	Geshe Lharampa Nagri Choszed
Date established	1993

Phuktal Monastic School, also known as the Phugtal Monastic School, is set up by the Phuktal Gompa that provides the students of the local Lungnak Valley in south-eastern Zanskar, in the autonomous Himalayan region of Ladakh, in Northern India.

Housed in the Phuktal Gompa, it is the only centre of learning for the remote villages located in the Lungnak Valley, which is cut off from the rest of the Ladakh region and has no direct vehicular connectivity. People ferry supplies on horses, donkeys, and mules in the warmer months, and in the frozen winters, they are transported through the frozen Zanskar River. No fees are charged from the students, and the monastery bears the cost for the room, board and study materials of the students, with help from sponsors. A lot of the students are children from the local farming families in the Lungnak Valley, which are extremely poor and least educated. The older generations are nearly totally uneducated.