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Phugtal Monastery

NamePhugtal Monastery
Image Size200px
Pushpin MapIndia
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Iso RegionIN-JK
Map CaptionLocation within India
Mapsize250
Location CountryIndia
LocationZanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Founded ByGangsem Sherap Sampo
FoundedEarly 12th century
SectDrukpa
No. Of Monks70 monks

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Phugtal Monastery or Phugtal Gompa (often trasliterated as Phuktal is a monastery in south-eastern Zanskar, Ladakh in northern India.

Founded by Gangsem Sherap Sampo in the early 12th century, the monastery is a unique construction built into the cliffside like a honeycomb. It located on the mouth of a cave on the cliff face of a lateral gorge of a major tributary of the Lungnak (Lingti-Tsarap) River.

Home to about 70 monks the monastery has a library and prayer rooms. A stone tablet reminds of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös author of the first English-Tibetan dictionary who explored Ladakh and visited in 1826-27.

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