Takthok Monastery

Takthok Monastery (tib. བྲག་ཐོག་ Wylie = Brag Thog, pron. Trag Thog, "Stone Roof" in english) is a Buddhist monastery in Sakti village in Ladakh, northern India, located approximately 46 kilometres east of Leh.[1] It is the only monastery in Ladakh belonging to the Nying-ma-pa or Red Hat sect. The name Takthok, literally meaning 'rock-roof' was named because both its roof as well as walls are made up of rock. It belongs to the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and approximately 55 lamas reside there. It is the only Nyingma monastery in Ladakh.[2][3]

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Takthok Monastery
Entrance to Guru Rinpoche's cave
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Deity	Padmasambhava
Festivals	Sacred Dances - 9th-10th day of the sixth month
Location
Location	Sakti, Ladakh, India
Location within Jammu and Kashmir
Geographic coordinates	34°0′19″N 77°49′13″E
Architecture
Founder	Tsewang Namgyal I

The monastery was founded around the mid-16th century during the reign of Tsewang Namgyal I (1575-1595) on a mountainside around a cave in which Padmasambhava is said to have meditated in the 8th century.[4]