About Wanla Monastery

Wanla Gompa is a historic Buddhist monastery on the ridge that crowns Wanla village in Ladakh of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Its small but impressively preserved three-storeyed Avalokitesvara temple is one of the earliest known Drigung Kagyu prayer chambers to have survived in Ladakh. Wanla is a sub-monastery of Lamayuru which provides a caretaker monk responsible for daily rituals and for granting access to the temple. The main image features Avalokitesvara in 11-headed ("Chuchigzhel") form.
Rock-cut Buddha Statue at Bojjanakonda near Anakapalle of Visakhapatnam

Historic Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India

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Dharma, Monasteries, Monuments
The Mauryan Empire reached its peak at the time of emperor Ashoka, who converted to Buddhism after the Battle of Kalinga. In 2018, excavations in Lalitgiri in Odisha by archaeological survey of India revealed four along with ancient seals and inscriptions which show cultural continuity from post-Mauryan period to 13 century CE. The Kushan Empire under emperor Kaniṣka ruled the strongly Buddhist region of Gandhara as well as other parts of northern India, Afghanistan and .
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