Sani

Type of object

Gompa

Name

Sani

Other names

Area

Zangskar

Region

Zahodno od Paduma

Founder

Sherab Zangpo

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

School

Najprej prevzela gelug, nato drugpa

Surroundings

"Kanishka čorten" in številni skalni reliefi iz 8. do 13. st. V sobicah naj bi meditirali Padmasambhava, Naropa in Nyima Ozer (hranijo tudi domneven odtis njegovega stopala). V bližini, na vrhu gore, meditacijska votlina oz. eremitaža, kjer naj bi meditiral Padmasambhava.

Interior

Kangyur, sveta slika Narope, poslikave stare največ 300 let.

Date of creation/first use

1395

End date

1457

Role or primary purpose

Glavni tempelj je v obliki mandale in je mogoče edini tempelj v Ladakhu, ki ima dva vhoda kot prehodni čorten. V enem izmed manjših templjev naj bi bili ostanki Narope.

Sources and literature

Snellgrove, David in Skorupski, Tadeusz. The cultural heritage of Ladakh. Vol. 2: Zangskar and the cave temples of Ladakh. Warminster: Aris & Phillips LTD, 1980, str. 57, 61. Gibbons, Bob in Pritchard-Jones, Sian. Ladakh. Land of Magical Monasteries. Varanasi: Pilgrims Publishing, 2006, str. 198, 199. Devers, Quentin. Historical Sites of Zanskar. New Delhi: Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, 2022, str. 159.