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Phuktal Monastery

INDIA, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh
ow above the cave, and the cave itself to grow larger. Under his guidance, the present monastery was built. The unique honeycomb-like monastery houses a main temple, prayer rooms, a library, monks’ quarters, teaching facilities, a kitchen, the original cave, and the sacred spring. A stone tablet records the 1826 visit of Alexander Csoma de Koros, author of the first English-Tibetan dictionary.

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