Stakna8 photos

This site does not use cookies at all. Whoever visits this site can therefore do so knowing that his navigation will not be tracked in any way, and will not be profiled for commercial or other purposes.

Spituk Stakna India Stok

Description

Stakna (027) — Stakna (027)

34° 0′ 18″ N, 77° 41′ 7″ E

Stakna Gompa, a Buddhist monastery of the Drugpa Sect, is located 25 km south-west from Leh on the right bank of the Indus River. It was founded in the late 16^th century by a Bhutanese scholar and saint, Chosje Jamyang Palkar.

Photos

Click the pictures to view them in full screen

Photo index

Stakna (004) — Stakna (004)

Stakna (006) — Stakna (006)

Stakna (010) — Stakna (010)

Stakna (016) — Stakna (016)

Stakna (020) — Stakna (020)

Stakna (023) — Stakna (023)

Stakna (027) — Stakna (027)

Stakna (037) — Stakna (037)

Pictures taken with a Canon EOS1

Map

See also

India

Humayun’s Tomb (187) — Humayun’s Tomb (187)

India (भारत गणराज्य), officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by… [Read more]

Ladakh

Leh (234) — Leh (234)

Ladakh stretches between the mountain ranges of the Himalayas (with the Stok Kangri as the most famous mountain) and the Karakorum and the upper valley of the Indus. The valleys are at an altitude of 3,000 m, making them the highest of Kashmir. The… [Read more]