Chemrey Monastery

Chemrey Monastery or Chemrey Gompa is a 1664 Buddhist monastery, about 40 kilometers east of Leh, Ladakh and northern India. It belongs to the Drugpa monastic order. It turned into based in 1664 by way of the Lama Tagsang Raschen and committed to King Sengge Namgyal. The monastery has a great excessive Padmasambhava statue. It also incorporates a valuable series of scriptures, with name pages in silver and the text in gold letters.

The monastery is also a venue for the competition of sacred dances which takes region at the 28th and 29th day of the 9th month of the Tibetan calendar every year. The monastery incorporates a number of shrines, assembly halls and a Lama temple. The most important attraction of the monastery is the one storey excessive statue of Padmasambhava. Another large appeal is the 29 extent scripture written in silver and golden letters. The monastery holds each year the Chemrey Angchok competition of sacred dances.