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Puntsokling Monastery was founded by Taranatha (1575-1634), Zanabazar's previous incarnation. Zanabazar visited here during his first trip to Tibet in 1649-50 and perhaps during his second trip to Tibet in 1655.  Taranatha was a prolific writer. Perhaps his best known book is the History of Buddhism in India. A translation of his Origins of the Tantra of the Bodhisattva Tara, or as it is also called, The Golden Rosary , can be found in Martin Willson's In Praise of Tara: Songs to the Saviouress: Source Texts from India and Tibet on Buddhism's Great Goddess.  |
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Another view of lower Monastery, which has been partially restored |
The Shambhala Temple in the lower monastery |
Ruins of the upper Monastery, destroyed by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution |
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View of ruins, looking up the Tsangpo Valley |
The Jonang Kumbum, located about three kilometers up a side valley at the site of the old Jonang Monastery. It is considerably older than the much more well-known Kumbum at Gyantse. |
Meditation retreat and two mediation caves on the hilliside above the Kumbum. Accordings to nuns who now liive here Taranatha himself did retreats here. |
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