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Sacred  Namthong karpo  Blessed by Guru Rinpoche, Namthong Karpo is an extraordinary sacred place. It takes only 5minutes to walk there from the Zuri Lhakhang.                Sacred Namthong Karpo Cave  Above the cave is a naturally formed conch and , to it’s left, a myriad of all kinds of deities may be seen in accordance with the strength of ones faith and yearning. Inside the cave one can see a wish-granting tree of natural stone ,naturally formed long life vase and form of Guru Rinpoches hat.                                 Zuri Lhakhang  To the left of the long life vase , there is a hole which a man can fit into. Formerly it was said that if a cat was sent through this hole it would come out directly in the courtyard of the Dzong. There are even tales of a few fortunate people who went in and came out from the other sides of the hole. Acc...
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Sacred Dur Tsachu ( Hot Spring)

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Sacred Dur Tshachu (Hot Spring ) of Guru Menlha at Bumthang  Kandroma Tshachu ( Hot Spring) There is a farm road twelve kilometers upstream from Chamkhar town on the way to Dur Menchugang. From there it is a four-day Journey by horse to reach the hot spring. There are many hot springs along the Mangde River, a fact mentioned in the biography of Gyap Sindhu Raja called The Clear Mirror states :" Ugyen Guru Rinpoche arrived at the upper end of Dur in the form of Guru Menlha " Medicine Guru Rinpoche ". He revealed 108 hot springs inorder to liberate sentient beings from deadly diseases, and bound all the local deities and treasure protectors by an oath ( to protect the hot spring will not be reborn in the lower realms." Guru Menlha  As mentioned, though this efficacious hot springs has been in existence a long time, it seems that it was inaccessible for  a period of time. It is said that after Guru Rinpoche’s visited, nobody made the trek to the hot spring and the path...
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Sacred Zabsel Gonpa

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 Zabsel Gonpa and its Eight Great Charnel Grounds  (creamation ground) at Gasa                              Zabsel Gonpa  Zabsel Gonpa was founded in the fourteenth century  ( seventh Rabjung ) by Drukchen Jamyang Lodro Senge, the eight of the nine Drukpa lineage holders with the name "Senge. "  The image inside the Gonpa is the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni, the Fourth Guide (rnam 'dren bzhi pa) , and the main guardians are the five Long-life sisters ( tshe ring mched Inga ). In research paper written by Sangye Dorji, the former  Tshenyi Lopen  (master of philosophical debate ) , it is related that Phajo Drugom Zhigpo visited the place after Guru Rinpoche visited and blessed the place around 958 CE. Guru Rinpoche visited the place because it possessed all the characteristics of a sacred place and moreover the landscape was similar to the eight Great Charnel Grounds ( dur khord Ch...
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Tsheringma Latsho the Spirit lake of five long life sister at Jomolhari

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Tsheringma Latsho the Spirit lake of five long life sister  If you walk up forty minutes from Jomolhari Temple which is full two-days Journey on foot from Misi Bridge in Paro, there is a lake known as Tsheringma Latsho ( the spirit lake of the goddess of Long-life ). The lake is about 4450 meters above sea level. You can also see  there the abode of Goddess Tsheringma.   Goddess Tsheringma ( Five Long-life Sisters) If you make a right turn and walk about Thirty minutes,  you will come across cliffs with caves that are known as Sergo  (golden door) and Dunggo (conch door ) used by great ones of the past to meditate;  nearby there are also blessed water sources. S ergo  (golden door) and Dunggo (conch door ) used by Guru Rinpoche to meditate In the surrounding cliffs , you can see various natural forms such as the Eye of Knowledge  ( Ye shes pa'i spyan ), the Secret Path of the Dakini  ( mkha' gor'i gsang lam) , and the Dakini Code Script ...
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Sacred Omtak Tsho

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Sacred Omtak Tsho at Sephu under Wangdue Phodrang                             Omtak Tsho ( Lake) Lake Omtak Tsho is also known as Wolthang. It is situated on the main way to Lunana at an altitude of 3800 metres. The ninth Gangteng Tulku Kunzang Pema Namgyal said that Wothang Thingthang ,mentioned in the Lhodruk Chojung history which was written by late Je Geshey Geden Rinchen 69th Je khenpo, is actually this lake called Omtak Tsho ; and further added that today people incorrectly pronounce this place names as Omta Thingtak.  Lama kezang based on the oral accounts of his fore father, reported that text called Tshedrup Yozer Drawai Choter ( tshe sgrub ' od zer drwa bai chos gter) was revealed by Terton Dorji Lingpa from this lake.                         Terton Dorji Lingpa  Legend it says that when Terton Dorji Lingpa revealed the Terma from Omt...
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The Practice House and the Blessed water

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The Practice House and the Blessed water at  Luku Dzong above Bae Langdrak,Wangdue. Inside a cliff at the foot of the hill Luku Dzong, there is a Practice house with two rooms and a blessed water source. In accordance with oral accounts of the village elders , 46-years old Ap Gyeltshen from Bae Niule said that a Siddha remains in retreat inside the Practice house.                             Sacred Luku Dzong  The Lodruk Chojung history records the following;  Choje Sherab Jungney the disciple of Khedrup Tenzin Dendup and Khen Zopa Thinley, practice meditation at the completely purifies sacred place of Luku Dzong for Sixteen years by relying on a cotton cloth; and he gained confidence of realization by breaking down his "false Cave" (falsehood ) of totally-obscuring delusion.                           Mediation cave  Further the ...
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མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གསང་ཕུག་གནས།

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                        མཁའ་འགྲོ་གསང་ཕུག་གནས། སྦས་བླང་བྲག་ལུ་འགྱོ་སའི་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ལམ་གྱི་གཡོན་ཧོངས་ལུ་  དུམ་གྲ་ཅིག་ས་ཁར་ཐང་སྦོམ་ཅིག་གི་སྦུག་ན་  གནས་ཡིག་ནང་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གསང་ཕུག་བདུད་རྩི་ཆུ་མིག་ནང་ དབུལ་ཕོངས་ཐམས་ཅད་སེལ་བའི་གཏེར་ཁ་ཡོད་ཟབ་གཏེར་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་ཡོད  ་ཟེར་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པའི་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གསང་ཕུག་  ག་ནི་བ་ཡ་མཚན་ཆེ་ཏོག་ཏོ་འདི་མཇལ་ནི་འདུག།                                     མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ། དབུ་མཛད་འཛིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་  ངག་རྒྱུན་བཤད་པའི་ནང་གསལ་  གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གླང་བྲག་གི་སྒྲུབ་ཕུག་ནང་བཞུགས་པའི་བསྒང་   འདི་ཁ་ལས་ཡར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་སྡེ་ལྔ་གླུ་གར་གྱི་མཆོད་པ་ཕུལ་ཏེ་བཞུགས་པའི་གནས་ཨིན་ཟེར་བཤད་པའི་ཁར་  བྱག་ཕུག་འདི་ནང་རྡོ་ཨོམ་གྱི་རྣམ་པ་སྦེ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་ཚུ་གི་ཨོམ་ཟེར་བཤད་ནི་འདུག།  རྡོ་འདི་ཚུ་ལས་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་འབབ་ཨིན་པས།                     ...
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