Shashur Monastery
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Shashur or Sashur Monastery is a Buddhist
monastery of the Drugpa sect in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh
, northern India
. It is located 37 kilometres from Manali. Sha-shur means "blue pines" in the local dialect, as patches of blue pine can be seen around the monastery.
This monastery was built in the 17th century by Lama Deva Gyatsho of Zanskar
who was a missionary of Nawang Namgyal, the king of Bhutan
. However, a smaller gompa had existed previous to the current building.
This monastery has large Thangka
paintings, some of them over fifteen feet, and wall paintings depicting all the 84 siddhas of Buddhism. In the month of June or July Chham is performed in the monastery.
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
monastery of the Drugpa sect in Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, northern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is located 37 kilometres from Manali. Sha-shur means "blue pines" in the local dialect, as patches of blue pine can be seen around the monastery.
This monastery was built in the 17th century by Lama Deva Gyatsho of Zanskar
Zanskar
Zanskar is a subdistrict or tehsil of the Kargil district, which lies in the eastern half of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The administrative centre is Padum...
who was a missionary of Nawang Namgyal, the king of Bhutan
Bhutan
Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...
. However, a smaller gompa had existed previous to the current building.
This monastery has large Thangka
Thangka
A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka", "Thanka" or "Tanka" is a Tibetan silk painting with embroidery, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, famous scene, or mandala of some sort. The thankga is not a flat creation like an oil painting or acrylic painting...
paintings, some of them over fifteen feet, and wall paintings depicting all the 84 siddhas of Buddhism. In the month of June or July Chham is performed in the monastery.