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Dorje Drak Monastery

TIME : 2016/2/17 11:49:39

Dorje Drak's main assembly hall has statues of the first and second Rigdzins and the 5th Dalai Lama, while the inner room features Pema Trinley, the fourth Rigdzin, next to Sakyamuni. The old B&W photo by the entryway shows the extents of the original monastery.

The Samsum Namgyel Gönkhang to the right has five butter sculptures representing the chapel’s five protectors. A cabinet holds the monastery’s treasures, including a fragment of a staff belonging to Milarepa that was smashed in the Cultural Revolution.