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'''Kunzangdrak''' ({{bo|t=ཀུན་བཟང་བྲག་|w=(kun bzang brag}})is a [[Buddhist]] sacred site in the [[Tang Valley]] of central [[Bhutan]]. It lies at an altitude of 3,350 metres (10,990 feet) in the hollow of a cliff. [[Guru Rinpoche]] and his disciple [[Namkhai Nyingpo]] are said to have meditated here at the end of the 8th century. The current temple, however, was established in 1488 by [[Pema Lingpa]].<ref name="Pommaret">{{cite book|author=Pommaret, Francoise|title=Bhutan Himalayan Mountains Kingdom (5th edition)|publisher=Odyssey Books and Guides|year=2006|pages=249–50}}</ref> Aside from Pema Lingpa's living quarters, the site consists of three temples, the Wangkhang, which has the main statue of [[Avalokiteshvara]] with a thousand eyes and a thousand hands,Özerphug, the meditation cave of Pema Lingpa's son, [[Tuksey Dawa Gyeltsen]] (ཐུགས་སྲས་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་མཚན) and the Khandroma Lhakang, which contains a gilded copa statue of the monastery founder, Lingpa.<ref name="Pommaret"/>
'''Kunzangdrak''' ({{bo|t=ཀུན་བཟང་བྲག་|w=kun bzang brag}}) is a [[Buddhist]] sacred site in the [[Tang Valley]] of central [[Bhutan]]. It lies at an altitude of 3,350 metres (10,990 feet) in the hollow of a cliff. [[Guru Rinpoche]] and his disciple [[Namkhai Nyingpo]] are said to have meditated here at the end of the 8th century. The current temple, however, was established in 1488 by [[Pema Lingpa]].<ref name="Pommaret">{{cite book|author=Pommaret, Francoise|title=Bhutan Himalayan Mountains Kingdom|publisher=Odyssey Books and Guides|year=2006|pages=249–50 |edition=5th }}</ref> Aside from Pema Lingpa's living quarters, the site consists of three temples, the Wangkhang, which has the main statue of [[Avalokiteshvara]] with a thousand eyes and a thousand hands,Özerphug, the meditation cave of Pema Lingpa's son, [[Tuksey Dawa Gyeltsen]] (ཐུགས་སྲས་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་མཚན) and the Khandroma Lhakang, which contains a gilded copper statue of Pema Lingpa.<ref name="Pommaret"/>

Kunzangdra is 19 km from Chamkhar Town and takes a half-hour hike to reach there on foot from the road end.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kunzangdra, a Cliff where Pema Lingpa saw Kuntu Zangpo, one of the Primordial Buddhas |url=https://bhutanpilgrimage.com/kunzangdra-a-cliff-where-pema-lingpa-saw-kuntu-zangpo-one-of-the-primordial-buddhas/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=bhutanpilgrimage.com |language=en-US}}</ref> It is one of the four sacred cliffs of Guru Rinpoche in Bumthang. The other three are [[Choedrak Monastery|Choedrak]], Shukdrak and [[Thowadra Monastery|Thowadrak]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dra Zhi, the Four Great Meditation Cliffs of Guru Rinpoche in Bumthang |url=https://bhutanpilgrimage.com/dra-zhi-the-four-great-meditation-cliffs-of-guru-rinpoche-in-bumthang/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=bhutanpilgrimage.com |language=en-US}}</ref>


==References==
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==External links==

* [https://relg367summer18kavose.sites.wm.edu/2018/08/10/kunzangdrak-monastery/ Kunzangdrak Monastery]
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Latest revision as of 08:21, 24 December 2024

Kungzandrak
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectNyingma
Location
LocationTang Valley, Bhutan
CountryBhutan
Kunzangdrak Monastery is located in Bhutan
Kunzangdrak Monastery
Location within Bhutan
Geographic coordinates27°32′43″N 90°48′05″E / 27.54528°N 90.80139°E / 27.54528; 90.80139
Architecture
FounderPema Lingpa
Date established1488

Kunzangdrak (Tibetan: ཀུན་བཟང་བྲག་, Wylie: kun bzang brag) is a Buddhist sacred site in the Tang Valley of central Bhutan. It lies at an altitude of 3,350 metres (10,990 feet) in the hollow of a cliff. Guru Rinpoche and his disciple Namkhai Nyingpo are said to have meditated here at the end of the 8th century. The current temple, however, was established in 1488 by Pema Lingpa.[1] Aside from Pema Lingpa's living quarters, the site consists of three temples, the Wangkhang, which has the main statue of Avalokiteshvara with a thousand eyes and a thousand hands,Özerphug, the meditation cave of Pema Lingpa's son, Tuksey Dawa Gyeltsen (ཐུགས་སྲས་ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་མཚན) and the Khandroma Lhakang, which contains a gilded copper statue of Pema Lingpa.[1]

Kunzangdra is 19 km from Chamkhar Town and takes a half-hour hike to reach there on foot from the road end.[2] It is one of the four sacred cliffs of Guru Rinpoche in Bumthang. The other three are Choedrak, Shukdrak and Thowadrak.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Pommaret, Francoise (2006). Bhutan Himalayan Mountains Kingdom (5th ed.). Odyssey Books and Guides. pp. 249–50.
  2. ^ "Kunzangdra, a Cliff where Pema Lingpa saw Kuntu Zangpo, one of the Primordial Buddhas". bhutanpilgrimage.com. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Dra Zhi, the Four Great Meditation Cliffs of Guru Rinpoche in Bumthang". bhutanpilgrimage.com. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
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