Zangla Monastery

Current day Zangla village has no monastery, only a nunnery. Zangla Palace is sometimes called Zangla Monastery due to a mistake probably first made by Tivadar Duka, biographer of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and later by Ervin Baktay, an Indologist who visited Zangla in 1928 to identify the locations related to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Suffering from malaria, he described Zangla Palace – probably due to the shrine and the monks living there – as a monastery.

Zangla Fort
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma who studied the Tibetan language at the monastery in 1823–4[1]
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Location
Location	Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, India
Country	India
Location within India Show map of Ladakh Zangla Monastery (India) Show map of India
Geographic coordinates	33°40′12″N 76°58′48″E
Architecture
Style	Tibetan

Tsazar Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the village of Tsa-zar, 6 kilometres south of Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, northern India, formerly part of the Zangla Kingdom.

Tsazar Monastery is home to a small number of lamas and has some notable wall paintings.

Hungarian philologist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma edited the first Tibetan-English dictionary while living at Zangla Palace in 1823. The dictionary was published in 1824.^[2]

See also

• List of buddhist monasteries in Ladakh
• Geography of Ladakh
• Tourism in Ladakh