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Tawang Monastery, Tawang- Part 2 Features Did you know that the Tawang Monastery, Tawang Arunachal Pradesh, built like a large mansion, is triple storied with a large assembly hall, ten other functional structures and with 65 residential quarters for students, Lamas and monks.? The Tawang Monastery, in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, founded by Merek Lama Lodre Gyamsto in 1680–81, has a Dukhang ('Du' meaning "assembly" and 'Khang' meaning "building" that was built in 1860–61. A large image of Buddha of 18 feet (5.5 m) height is deified; it is gilded and decorated, and is in a lotus position. This image is on the northern face of the assembly hall and is installed over a platform and its head extends up to the first floor. Next to the Buddha image there is a silver casket that holds a special thangka painting of the goddess Sro Devi (Palden Lhamo), which is the guardian deity of the monastery. It is said that it was painted with the blood dr...

Tawang Monastery, Tawang - Part 1 Geography, History and legends  Did you know that Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India, is said to be the largest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa, Tibet? The Tawang Monastery, located in Tawang city of Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India. It is situated in the valley of the Tawang Chu (river), near the small town of the same name in the northwestern part of Arunachal Pradesh, in close proximity to the Chinese and Bhutanese border.  Tawang in etomological terms a compound word of 'Ta' meaning "horse", 'wang' meaning "chosen", which together forms the word 'Tawang', meaning "the location selected by horse". Tawang Monastesry is also known in Tibetan as "Gaden Namgyal Lhatse" in which ,'Gadan' means "paradise", 'Namgyal' means "complete victory" a...