Stok Monastery or Stok Gompa is a
Buddhist monastery in
Stok
Stok is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Leh tehsil, in the Indus Valley 17 km southeast of the Leh town.
The village is home to the 14th century Stok Monastery, with its high seated Gautama Buddha sta ...
,
Leh district,
Ladakh, northern
India, 15 kilometres south of
Leh
Leh () ( lbj, ) is the joint capital and largest city of Ladakh, a union territory of India. Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh, the seat of which was in the Leh Palace, the former res ...
.
It was founded by Lama Lhawang Lotus in the 14th Century and has a notable library including all 108 volumes of the
Kangyur. A ritual dance-mask festival is held annually.
Next to the monastery is the 71 feet (22 m) high seated
Gautama Buddha statue and temple, constructed between 2012-2015 and consecrated by the
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...
on 8 August 2016.
Around 2 km from the monastery is Stok Palace, built in 1820 as the summer home of Ladakhi royalty from the
Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh
The Namgyal dynasty was a dynasty whose rulers were the monarchs of the former kingdom of Ladakh that lasted from 1460 to 1842 and were titled the Gyalpo of Ladakh. The Namgyal dynasty succeeded the first dynasty of Maryul and had several conf ...
.
Gallery
File:Stok palau 2.jpg
File:Stok palau 3.jpg
File:Stok palau 4.jpg
See also
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Chogyal
The Chogyal ("Dharma Kings", ) were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty. The Chogyal was the absolute monarch of Sikkim from 1642 to 1975, when the monarchy was abolished and the Sikkimese people ...
References
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Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh
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Leh district