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2016 refreshed Katok monastery, photo were taken 25 days before 2016 Katok Monastery Festival
New buildings including the newly rebuilt assembly hall have completed and being activated to be used after 2016 Katok Monastery Festival officially.
2016 Lhagang monastery King Gesar Dance Performance is held in the July 2016, this festival lasts about 3 days from 15 to 17 of July. Click here to view a video record of this religou celebration
Tibetan Buddhism Iconographic guide II is now publised, please Click to visit this page
Lhozhag County is one of the 4 border town of Shan-nan Prefecture of Tibet. Its southern border with Bhutan. The border is about more than 200 kilometers. Se village is seated on this border. Follow the road into Se valley to reach Se Village which is about 30km from Bhutan. Se village is not well-known, however, Sekhar Gutok monsatery is the one that people come here for
Sekhar Gutok monastery means “The Nine-Story castle built by Prince”. It is located about 600 meters south of Se village of Shannan Prefecture Tibet in Lhozhag County, where the altitude of 3,700 meters. Sekhar Gutok was originally Kagyu Pa monastery, then converted to be one Gelug Pa monastery and being included as a national key cultural relics protection project.
Sekhar Gutok Monastery was founded by the famous Tibetan Buddhist master Marpa in AD 1080. whose’s disciple Milarepa was responsible for building this monastery.
The monastery faces to east and being surrounded by wall; it is 98 meters from east to west, and 48 meters from South to North. The assembly hall of the temple is known as the Great Buddha Karma. The 28 meters high nine-floors tower with the golden dome roof of Sekhar Gutok was constructed as a great act of penance by Milarepa on behalf of Darma Dode, the son of Marpa. In the first half of the 16th century, Kagyu scholar “Bawa Zhu la Cheng Wa” started a massive expansion of maintenance, thus forming the present size. It is said that the expansion into Dukang hall mural is painted by “Bawa Zhu la Cheng Wa”.
The Renpoche of Samdrup Temple of Kham managed to make the last maintenance in 1944 of 20th century. From which, Sekhar Gutok monastery converted to be one Gelug Pa monastery. For adherents of the Kagyu school, and the Tibetan population as a whole, this single building and the manner of its construction encapsulate the self-sacrifice and renunciation required for success on the Buddhist spiritual path. The tower its distinctive pagoda roof now replaced with a flat roof; and three of its seven floors contain original murals. Marpa’s chapel has some excellent old Thangkas. the adjacent two story monastery which once housed 100 monks, still contain some original images of the karmapas, and precious relics such as skull fragment of Dagmema whom was wife of Marpa
600 meters from Se village
Full day
3,700 meters
RMB 20.00 per person
This monastery is located in Se village of Lhozhag County, from which you can walk to this site within 5 minutes;
Se village is 48 kilometers from Lhozhag County, about 1.5 hours’ drive, from which it is 220 kilometers, about 5.5 hours’ drive to Gyantse County; or 260 kilometers, about 7 hours drive from Lhasa
Mu ge cuo Lake is also called “The Wild Man Lake”. It is with an altitude of 3,700 meters. The water surface covers about three square kilometers, the deepest of this lake is about 70 meters. The lake is surrounded by pines, cedars, and rhododendron trees on three sides and neighboring the vast Lhagang (Tagong) grassland and Lhagang (Tagong) monastery in its west.
Kangding – the home of love-songs in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan province. It is also the gateway town of entering Kham, the east Tibet of Kham.
Litang Horse Racing Festival was stopped since 2008; This year. This year, 2016 Litang horse racing festival return. This distinguished meeting is now being held in Litang Grassland with even more exciting equipment of Hot-air balloon, which provide full view of this traditional Tibetan horse-racing festival;
2016 litang horse racing festival begins from today, August 1st;
