Tongsa Monastery

Tongsa is located 2,200 km above sea level and has not only strategic but also religious significance for locals and numerous pilgrims. Tongsa Monastery is a place of difficult service for thousands of monks.

This is a sacred place, where you can get, having made a grueling, long and difficult journey, many pilgrims tend to visit. They are attracted here by the prayer of Buddhist monks, located above the chapel. It offers magnificent views of mountain peaks and green valleys of wonderful beauty. It is a place for reflection and meditation and just a quiet contemplation of the local beauties, which monks have chosen for so long.

And the monastery of Tongsa is famous for a very rich collection of weapons. Sabres, chain mail, silver helmets, shields of rhinoceros skins and truncheons inlaid with gold. Here you can see the guns of the late XIX century, made of wired numerous layers of egg skins.

“Door to Heaven” is the name of Tongsa and, having visited this sacred place, it is impossible to disagree with this.