Ladakh is a land like no other. Bounded by two of
the world's mightiest mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya and the
Karakoram, it lies athwart two other, the Ladakh range and the Zanskar
range. Ladakh lies at altitudes ranging from about 9,000 feet (2750m)
at Kargil to 25,170 feet (7,672m) at Saser Kangri in the Karakoram.
Zongkul is a sacred place of meditation, founded by the great mahasiddha Naropa,
who when he was residing in his meditation cave (where his staff is still preserved)
which is situated on the high and splendid rock face above the present monastery,
he struck his ritual dagger in to the rock as a sign that he would found the
monastery.
The mahasiddha went there and founded the monastery. There after it became the
sacred place of meditation for all the mahasiddha of Zanskar, including Dubchen
Kunga Gyatso, Dubchen Nawang Tsering, Dzadpa Dorje, Karmapa, Kunga Choslag and
lama Norboo.
Inside the monastery there are to be seen many kinds of sacred shrines including
the holy objects made by all those mahasiddha mentioned above, such as: an ivory
image of Samvara, a crystal stupa and the texts containing the spiritual songs
and biographies composed by the successive mahasiddha.
Inside the meditation cave there is Panchen Naropa’s footprint embedded
in the rock and his sacred spring.
Zongkuyl Monastery, Monastries in Ladakh
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