Tabo Monastery Tsug Lhakhang (Main Assembly Hall)
VIDEO
2015
7 min. 46 sec.
See the interior of this rare 10th century Buddhist temple located in Spiti region of Western Himalayas, India.
Famed Tabo Monastery is known as the oldest continually functioning Tibetan Buddhist monastery, the art of which the Dalai Lama said “delightfully expresses the vigor of the transmission of Buddhism from India to Tibet and the dynamic mingling of cultures.” Established in 996 C.E. by the Buddhist king of Guge in Western Tibet, Yeshe O’d, and the The Great Translator Rinchen Zangpo, it flourished in a golden epoch of Indo-Tibetan collaboration which revitalized Buddhism.
To learn more about Tibetan Buddhist art and its relationship to 10th-12th century Indo-Tibetan predecessors, visit the artist’s Fulbright blog.
This video is part of the Collections of Columbia University Tibetan Studies C.V. Starr East Asian Library, New York, NY; and Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, Dharamsala, India.