Type of object

Gompa

Name

Wanla

Other names

Wamda Sgom Phuk

Area

Zangskar

Region

Severni Zangskar

Founder

Prvi tempelj je bil zgrajen v času Rinchena Zangpa.

Important monks, nuns, yogis, yoginis, and other teachers who visited the monastery

School

Drigung

Surroundings

Ruševine gradu Wanla Lonpoja in sodobni zlati kip njega

Interior

Naropova votlina, znamenita podoba enajstglave Mahakarune (Avalokitešvare), sveta podoba Joboje Paldana Atiše.

Date of creation/first use

1275

End date

1425

Role or primary purpose

Ena izmed 4 glavnih podružničnih gomp Lamayuruja, znameniti romarski kraj.

Sources and literature

Gibbons, Bob in Pritchard-Jones, Sian. Ladakh. Land of Magical Monasteries. Varanasi: Pilgrims Publishing, 2006, str. 189. Paldan, Thupstan. A Guide to the Buddhist Monasteries and Royal Castles of Ladakh. 2019, str. 11, 13. Konchok Rigzen, Khanpo. Lamayuru Monastery: The Secret Moonland on the Earth. Leh: Ratna-Shri Publisher, 2021, str 190. Luczanits, Christian. “The Wanla Bkra shis gsum brtsegs”, Buddhist Art and Tibetan Patronage Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries." PIATS 2000: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, ur. D. E. Klimburg-Salter and E. Allinger, Leiden, Brill, 2002, 124. Terensko delo.