• Kursha Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of eastern Jammu and Kashmir, India?

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Rizong Monastery

• Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?

Alchi Monastery

• the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th century Tibetan noble?

Korzok Monastery

• at 4,595 m above sea level, the fields at Korzok Monastery (pictured) in India have been called the highest cultivated land in the world?

Diskit Monastery

• Diskit Monastery (pictured) is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India?

Ladakh

• Diskit Monastery (pictured) is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India?
• Likir Monastery in Ladakh contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara with 1000 arms and 11 heads?
• Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?
• Shanti Stupa (pictured), Ladakh, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 1985, holds the relics of the Buddha?
• Takthok Monastery is the only monastery of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh?
• Tsomoriri (pictured), with an altitude of 4,595 metres (15,075 ft) in Ladakh, is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region entirely within India?
• the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th century Tibetan noble?
• the Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group has been responsible for solar energy development in Ladakh in northern India?
• the statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha (pictured) of Shey Monastery is believed to be the second largest such statue in the northern Indian region of Ladakh?

Likir Monastery

• Likir Monastery in Ladakh contains a statue of Avalokiteśvara with 1000 arms and 11 heads?

Shey Monastery

• the statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha (pictured) of Shey Monastery is believed to be the second largest such statue in the northern Indian region of Ladakh?