Phyang Monastery

Phyang Monastery, Phyang Gompa is a Buddhist monastery positioned in Fiang village, just 15 or 16 kilometres west of Leh in Ladakh, northern India. It became hooked up in 1515. There are multiple divergent traditions regarding its founding. Others say that it become founded by means of King Tashi Namgyal, whose reign has been installed from impartial sources to have been inside the 0.33 zone of the 16th century. There are a number of chronological problems in setting up occasions in Ladakh at this era and it is assumed that some names had been ignored from the Chronicle both from mistakes in memory or way of life, or a planned try to get rid of some occasions which had been idea better forgotten.

The monastery is one in every of only in Ladakh belonging to the Drikung Kagyu, Dri gung pa or Drigungpa School, certainly one of 8 colleges derived from the lessons of Phakmadrupa Dorje Gyelpo 1110 to 1170 CE. There are many drikung monasteries in ladakh: three major and greater than 30 department monasteries.