Traveling to Namgyal Monastery – Dharamshala

As we all know that Dharamshala is home for some, numerous religious spots, in the meantime, there is another astounding monastery to visit for both the pioneers and the voyagers that is none other than the celebrated monastery kown as the Namgyal Monastery. The Namgyal Monastery in Dharamshala additionally happens to be the biggest Tibetan sanctuary outside Tibet and the home for the Tibetan otherworldly pioneer Dalai Lama.

The Namgyal Monastery is arranged inside the Tsuglagkhang complex. This complex additionally is the proud home to your holiness of Dalai Lama, among different holy places, sanctuaries, bookstores, trinket shops and so on. This Buddhist stupa is a remembrance to those Tibetans who lost their lives battling for a free Tibet. A statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha is cherished in a small chamber at the top. The stupa is situated in the core of McLeod and encompassed by supplication wheels.

History of Namgyal Monastery

Let us straightly go to the history of the Namgyal Monastery. The monastery was established somewhere close to 1564-1565 (sixteenth century) and it was worked by the second Dalai Lama with a specific end goal to ensure that the Namgyal priests can assist the Dalai Lama out in the open religious issues. The priests living here perform customs for the welfare of Tibet and work as a focal point of learning and contemplation on the significant Buddhist treatises.

In the year 1959, the Red Chinese attacked Tibet, after which, His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama alongside a huge number of Tibetans, including several Namgyal priests, fled into the neighboring nations of Nepal, Bhutan, and India and re-built up the Namgyal monastery in India.

The Namgyal monastery was re-built up in India in the year 1959 and it was set up in Dharamshala. The monastery has 200 priests; who have been serving the place for a significant long time now by saving the antiquated Buddhist ceremonies, aesthetic aptitudes and old conventions. The monastery likewise urges the priests to entertain themselves with the investigation of Buddhism which incorporates present day investigations of both Tibetan and English dialect, investigation of Sutra and Tantra writings, Buddhist Philosophy, making margarine figures, torma offerings, sand mandalas, playing different custom melodic instruments, custom droning, and moves.

Regardless of whether you are not an extraordinary religious individual, you should in any case visit this astounding monastery just to encounter the magnificence and the serenity of the place. Many individuals visit the place simply because it has a great deal to offer as tourists' spot instead of simply being a place to revere the Almighty.

How to Reach Namgyal Monastery

As you know that the Namgyal Monastery is arranged inside the Tsuglagkhang complex, you can just take a taxicab from Dharamshala to the Tsuglagkhang complex or to the monastery. You should visit the monastery between 4.30 AM to 8.30 PM and it is open each day.

On your way back do not forget to visit the war memorial Dharamshala.