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"Takthok Monastery : At a distance of 50 km from Leh, Takthok monastery houses a cave where Guru Padmashambhava meditated in the earlier era. The significane of the monastery lies in it being the only one that belongs to the "Old Order" or the Nying-ma-pa sect of Buddhism."
http://www.mykashmir.in/monasteries.html.
"Takthok Monastery (also known as Thag Thog or Thak Thak) is a Buddhist monastery in Sakti village in Ladakh, northern India, located approximately 46 kilometres east of Leh. The name Takthok, literally meaning 'rock-roof' was named because both its roof as well as walls are made up 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.
The monastery was founded around the mid-16th century during the reign of Tshewang Namgyal on a mountainside around a cave in which Padmasambhava [ven.padmasambhava] is said to have meditated in the 8th century."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
Input by: tmciolek, July 12, 2012
Final data (and their sources)
Last updated: 19 Jul 2014
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Takthok monastery, IN.
lat=34.005278 long=77.820278
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://www.fallingrain.com), 2012.
Google Map link:
Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Takthok hermitage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- India:State of Jammu and Kashmir
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
- Thakthok monastery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- Thag Thog monastery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- Thak Thak monastery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- Stone Roof monastery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- Taktok Gompa - http://maps.google.com/
4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx., Lat 34.005278, Long 77.820278 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- These wikipedia coordinates are confirmed through visual indentification of the site in maps and satellite imagery of http://maps.google.com/ - tmciolek, 12 Jul 2012.
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- [missing data]
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- Shakti - http://maps.google.com/
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Approx., Lat 33.9978 Long 77.8188 - http://maps.google.com/
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
- Vajrayana
10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
- [missing data]
11. Date-early
- 8th c. CE, a cave hermitage where Guru Padmashambhava is said to have meditated - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
MBM chrono-tag 0733-66p - tmciolek 19 Jul 2014
0700-32p 0733-66p 0767-99c 0800-32c 0833-66c 0867-99c 0900-32c 0933-66c 0967-99c 1000-32c 1033-66c 1067-99c 1100-32c 1133-66c 1167-99c 1200=> dated-el
12. Date-intermediate
- Around the mid-16th century during the reign of Tshewang Namgyal, a Nyingma monastery established next to the cave hermitage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
13. Date-late
- In operation in the early 21st c. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
MBM chrono-tag 1200=> - tmciolek 19 Jul 2014
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
- [missing data]
15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- architecture
16. Additional notes
- Approximately 55 resident lamas in the early 2000s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
- The monastery is built close to the "cave in which Padmasambhava [ven.padmasambhava] is said to have meditated in the 8th century."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takthok_Monastery
17. Corrections & addenda to this page were kindly provided by
- [missing data]
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