Zangla Monastery

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Zangla Monastery
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor.jpg
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma who studied the Tibetan language at the monastery in 1823-4
Zangla Monastery is located in Jammu and Kashmir
Zangla Monastery
Zangla Monastery
Location within India
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Monastery information
Location Tsa-zar, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Type Tibetan Buddhist
Sect Gelug
Number of monks 150

Current day Zangla Village has no Monastery only a Nunnery. Zangla Palace is sometimes called Zangla Monastery due to a mistake made first probably by Tivadar Duka, biographer of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and later by Ervin Baktay, an Indologist who visited Zangla in 1928 to identify the locations related to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and suffering from malaria fever, described Zangla Palace - probably due to the Shrine and some monks living there - as a Monastery.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Tsazar Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the village of Tsa-zar, 6 kilometres from Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, northern India. Formerly belonged to Zangla Kingdom.

Tsazar Monastery is home to a few number of lamas and it has some notable wall paintings.

The Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma edited the first Tibetan-English dictionary while living at Zangla Palace in 1823. The dictionary was published in 1824.[1]

References

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