Part -4| SPITI ROAD TRIP | DUE -TABO - DHANKER MONESTERY

Part -4| SPITI ROAD TRIP | DUE -TABO - DHANKAR MONASTERY

GUE monastery
Gue is a very small border village in Northern India in Himalayas. It is situated deep in a valley at an altitude of around 3000 meters above sea level in Spiti valley of Lahaul & Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh. The Gue is an border sensitive area with India-China border just few Kilometers away. It was not really a tourist place until recent discovery of a mummy of a monk called Sangha Tenzin in 1975 Spiti Earthquake. It was discovered by the road construction workers when Earthquake broke opened its tomb and the road. But it was kept hidden from the world by locals and the ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) till early 2000s. Today the Mummy Lama is placed inside a glass box in a small 10×10 feet room on a hilltop above Gue Village. The Gue village has presence of Indian Army, but today it’s very easy to get into the village and see the mummy. The Gue village is 82 kms and 47 kms from Kaza and Nako lake respectively.
The carbon dating on mummy showed that the mummy is 550 to 600 years old, but according to locals it is much older than 600 years. The Gue Lama mummy is India’s one and only mummy. Monk Sangha Tenzin gave up his life during meditation to save the village from the rise in Scorpion problem. According to locals, when Sangha Tenzin soul’s left his body a rainbow appeared in the sky and all the scorpions disappeared from the village.
The mummy still has most of the skin on the body, also the hair, teeth and fingernails. Spiti and gue people still worship the mummy of Sangha Tenzin and seek his blessings.
Dhankar monastery
This beautiful monastery is locked between the rocky spurs at the top of clif in the Dhankar village at an elevation of over 3,800 meters in the Spiti valley. It is a 16th century old fort monastery, which has also served as a prison in the erstwhile era. The Dhankar Gomba is over 1000 years old and is connected to the rest of the valley through a Motorable road, which is good for small vehicle only. There is a new monastery in the small village of Shichilling below the old monastery. The old monastery is associated with the Great Translator, Rinchen Zanggpo, and its complex comprises a number of multi-storey buildings perched together.
Not just this, but the old monastery has five different halls, including Kanjur, Lhakhang, and Dukhang, and a huge life size silver image of Vajradhara, kept in a glass altar adorned with scarves and flowers. The Lhakhang Gompa is a must visit spot, which is situated on the uppermost peak above the main monastery. This place is beautified with depictions of Shakyamuni, Tsongkhapa, and Lama Chodrang on the central wall. There are around 150 lamas residing in Dhankar Gompa; Dhankar means 'a place in the mountains that can be easily reached by visitors.'

Tabo Monastery
Tabo Monastery, also known as the 'Ajanta of the Himalayas,' is one of the most popular monasteries in the Lahaul and Spiti Valley and was founded more than a millennium back in 996 A.D. This ancient structure stands on the barren, cold, and rocky desert of the Tabo valley at a dizzying height of 3050 meters above sea level. This untouched beauty has preserved the glorious heritage, traditions, and culture of Buddhism through the passage of centuries. According to the Tibetan Calendar, the Tabo Monastery is believed to have been established in the year of the Fire Ape, by a great teacher and translator Lotsawa Rinchen Tsang Po, the king of the western Himalayan Kingdom of Guge.


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