Talung's most important structure was its Tsuglhakhang (grand temple), also known as the Red Palace. The building was reduced to rubble but its impressively thick stone walls remain.
To the south of the Tsuglhakhang is the main assembly hall, the Targyeling Lhakhang . Look out for the destroyed set of three chörtens behind the building, one of which contained the remains of the monastery’s founder.
To the west in the main monastery building, the Choning (Tsenyi) Lhakhang is used as a debating hall and has a statue of the bearded Tashipel to the right. The fine cham masks are traditionally worn during a festival on the eighth day of the fourth month (the festival clothes are in a metal box in the corner) but there are currently not enough monks to hold the celebrations. Snarling stuffed wolves hang from the ceiling of the protector chapel next door. Just behind here is the Jagji Lhakhang.
Down in the centre of the village is the renovated Tashikang Tsar , the residence of the local reincarnation Tsedru Rinpoche, who died in 2007 and whose body was laid to dry for three years under a pile of salt before being entombed in a chörten in the monastery's Kumbun Lhakhang.
Talung Monastery is 60km north of Lhundrub, over the 4845m Chak-la. It's a 4km detour west of the main road.
