• We are Living the DreamNepal Tibet Bhutan India 2019Traveler
    Rock pictures outside the Monastery
    Entrance to the first sectionView of part of the Monastery

    Dreprung Monastery

    May 17, 2019 in China ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    More Monasteries today each one is a little different but essentially the same.

    Dreprung Monastery was built in 1416. Over 10,000 monks resided here making it the largest monastery in Tibet. It has 6 main temples, 3 monastic colleges. The monastery covers an area of 200,000 square metres.

    Again we walked heaps of stairs just to get to the monastery and then there are plenty more stairs inside. We only visited 2 of the temples but still very interesting.    Read more