| Takthok Monastery | |
|---|---|
 Entrance to Guru Rinpoche's cave | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Sect | Nyingma |
| Deity | Padmasambhava |
| Festivals | Sacred Dances - 9th-10th day of the sixth month |
| Location | |
| Location | Sakti, Ladakh, India |
  Location within Jammu and Kashmir | |
| Geographic coordinates | 34°0′19″N 77°49′13″E / 34.00528°N 77.82028°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Tsewang Namgyal I |
Takthok Monastery (tib. བྲག་ཐོག་ Wylie = Brag Thog, pron. Trag Thog, "Stone Roof" in english) is a Buddhist monastery in Sakti village in Ladakh, northern India, located approximately 46 kilometres east of Leh.[1] It is the only monastery in Ladakh belonging to the Nying-ma-pa or Red Hat sect. The name is Takthok, literally meaning 'rock-roof' was named because both its roof and walls are made of rock. It belongs to the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and approximately 55 lamas reside there. It is the only Nyingma monastery in Ladakh.[2][3]
The monastery was founded around the mid-16th century during the reign of Tsewang Namgyal I (1575-1595) on a mountainside around a cave in which Padmasambhava is said to have meditated in the 8th century.[4]
- ^ "Takthok Monastery". Buddhist-temples.com. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
- ^ Rizvi (1996), p. 218.
- ^ Waters of life: perspectives of water harvesting in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. 2000. p. 239. ISBN 9291151041.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Rizvi (1996), p. 235.