Gyuto Tantric Monastery Temple

I was very touched to be able to return to the Dharma King's monastery in such a special way!

A monastery with a very vivid yet picturesque mountain line at the backdrop. A must visit when in and around Dharamshala.
Buddhist enchantings fill the entire surrounding.

Spiritual don't miss the mesmerising chantings.no wonders, it was nominated for the Grammy's

It is located in a beautiful place sidhpur. Peaceful and scenic monastery. But the management of this monastery was very rude to the visitors. I wasn't expecting this from them.

Very beautiful art inside! Monks are a bit closed and secretive, not as much hospitality as one can also encounter in such places. But again, the art inside.

Beautiful, mesmerizing, serene place at this yellow gold monastery.
The view of the elevation with the backdrop of Himalayas is breathtaking.
One can spend hours just looking through the architecture and details and colors of the building and whole building complex.
The monks sitting inside monastery studying and humming mantras gives a spiritual goal to the visitors.
Walk through the entrance aisle amidst the green plants feels like walking in some foreign location.

It's a must visit monastery.
There are religious symbols painted on the floors of the monastery in white chalk.

Also there is a ramp to climb up the monastery with proper railing to hold on the left end of the monastery which takes u straight up the main hall.
Wheelchairs accessibility is there.

Best to visit is when whether is lil pleasant as there are not many shady areas to sit.

Prayers are offered in a disciplined manner.
Good ambience of the place. Known as Karamappa Monestry locally.

Its a very peaceful and serene place, you can spot monks in their attires and all this look so beautiful.

If not clouds you can visibly see the mountain ranges. It is amazing experience

This monastery is dedicated to tantric sect of Buddhism. It is located in a very peaceful and a picturesque setting. A little away from the city, one can go there to enjoy the peace and admire the beautiful artwork and idols located inside the main praying area.

Beautiful Monestry in Mcleodganj Dharmsala Himachal Pradesh India located Sidhbari. Prominent Monastery focused on Tantric meditation and ritual arts along with Buddhist philosophy.

A quiet monastery, with quarters for monks built around it. You can some good quiet time here, and watch the cute little monks playing football or just enjoy the sun and the views from the monastery. No entrance fee

One of the best place to visit if you are nearby. It is a Buddhist temple and it is very beautiful. It is must watch place.

It was one of the best monastery I have visited, beautifully Structured and full of good vibes.
If you are visiting Mcleodganj or dharamshala, I will strongly suggest you to have a look at this place and thank me later.

. Beautiful, peaceful and most scenic.it may not be in the itenery given by ur tour planner, but its a must visit place on the way to Dharamshala.

Wonderful ambiance and the view from here is simply brilliant. It was a whole different energy to visit a tantric monastery.

Absolutely the most silent and peaceful place surrounding by the snow mountains and beautiful nature in the remote hills

Nice ambiance, amazing architecture. Must visit please in Dharmshala. And most importantly, not to be confused with Buddhist temple of McLeod Gunj, both are different

This monastery is so beautiful and peaceful. This monastery's atmosphere is so positive. You will feel so positive and good. When you enter this monastery.
Inside of this monastery you can find so much interesting things which make so happy. Please visit this monastery if ur in dharamshala.

Beutifull Buddhist temple, very clean & well maintained with background view of Dhauladar Range

Very beautiful and peaceful place. You can see monks all around. Beautiful Himalaya mountain view is amazing. You can spend time and observe the monks. How calm they are how different their Life is from use. You can spend time here with yourself and search you within you. Amazing place you enjoy the beauty of snow mountains.

Complete Guide to Visit Dalai Lama Temple Dharamshala

December 30,2017 Admin

Mcleodganj is a holy city in Dharamshala, which is famous for many attractions including the Dalai Lama temple. This temple is also called as Tsuglakhang Temple. Dalai Lama visits this temple twice or thrice every year to preach and bless. Thus, the temple gets its name as Dalai Lama Temple.

If you are lucky enough to visit the temple during his visit, you can listen to his preaching. Very close to the residence of Dalai Lama, this temple stands as an important pilgrimage spot. This temple is famous for providing religious teachings. The most important feature of this temple is the morning ritual.

Just like every other monastery, here also you can find peace. You can visit, sit there, meditate or go sightseeing.
Monks are virtuous and busy in there own work. They will notice you, some may even smile, but they won't say anything.

Beautiful monastery in ahuge compound with the backdrop of Dhauldhar mountains. Even more magnificent are the tapestries and sculpture inside.

Amazing infrastructure, breath taking view of mountains, peaceful area. Best to visit when prayers going on in monastery. And little bit away from from Dalai Lama temple but will be worth if one can visit!

Breath taking view of the mountains behind the monastery. It's clean, calm and comforting. Good place for meditation as it's very peaceful here.the scenic beauty is awesome. Many monks stay here within the vicinity.the monks are also very friendly. You get stunning view of the Himalayan mountains.

The place has a spectacular view of the Himalayan mountains in the backdrop. Inside the main premises one can see various Tibetan deities along with Buddhist monks praying and reading religious texts. There are also canteen facilities. The entire monastery is covered with a hue of yellow. It is a place for enjoying peace and quietness away from the hustle and bustle of city life

The monastery is situated in Dharamshala on Palampur Road, is Karmapa monestry, where the young lama are taught about the Lord Budha and the various religious activities, to be used by them during their life and discourse to the general public, just like the pandits in the Hindu and other diciples. The place is having the residential building for the both, teachers, administration, and the diciples, there is a dining hall for all to look after their food part.

Amazing scenery of this place
Monastery is located with a backdrop of mountain ranges in the back
Place is peaceful
Free entry
Monks are seen reciting mantras

One of the beautiful monastery.
It was suggested by my cab driver. I was happy that he took me to such a picturesque place.

When people visit McLeodganj, they visit the main monastery there. But this monastery is on the highway. Tibetan monks take their training and the place full of serenity. You can have a glimpse of the tantrik side of Tibetans here.

The place is calm and peaceful. It was great spending time here.away from hectic city life and the view from here was just wow

A beautiful and spiritual tourist attraction in Dharamsala which is worth visiting. It provides a peaceful experience.

Education system of this monasteey is amazing and the place is full of spritiality you can find many budhist scholars and teacher here

This is a nice place with good vibes. There is a Dhauladhar scenic view in its background that makes it more pleasant and concentric.

It's an amazing experience to visit this place. Painted completely in yellow looks like a typical Buddhist town from a distance. The monks are very friendly and its an enriching experience to conversate with them for a while. Overall a must visit place. If visited in morning hours its all the more remarkable.

One of the best temples in india, i love the interior and exterior as well it is so beautifully built in short i love the overall experience

It's a religious place of Buddhism so I can't review it. The place is awesome. The views are heavenly. You find peace when you visit.you can take a picture as a visitor or if you follow Buddhism it will definitely inspire you.

Best place with mountains, fresh air, beautiful view, positive vibes and with it's own beauty. I visited on 1-Nov-19 and Dalai lama visit was on the 2-Nov-19. Monks were working hard to clean the temple.

This Monastery cannot be described down in a few words, it's just Amazing go without a second thought, views here are just too Perfect, Monks are really very friendly and (HUMBLE).

Clean calm and comforting. Definitely worth a visit. The monastery has been constructed with great planning I love this place.painted in all yellow seems like a little lhasa township with giant monastery temple sitting right in its center. Gyuto monastery is very quiet place and I love going to that monastery whenever I get free time. When I want inner peace I usually go there.

Discovered the Karmapa Temple and was impressed to see a harmonious and participative environment crated by the monks during the Cleaning Session

Clean, calm and comforting. Definitely worth a visit. The Monastery has been constructed with great planning. I love this place.

Very beautiful monestry and has big parking as well.
This yellow color temple like structure is the budhhist religious school.
Which teaches tantric mantras and studies to novice and monks.
This big complex has residencies of monks and big hall where students learn practices.

It is a real monestary, like you see in movies.it is very peaceful. You should carry your camera and click some beautiful images, as it is not very crowded like The Dalai Lama Temple in McLeodgunj (with all my respect, The Temple is not very photogenic).

The place was nice. However not very tourist friendly.meaning not much info available there on ground and no body to explain also. So if you just want to visit tjen its ok.

A beautiful place to visit.for prayers.for a visitation how the monk study buddha studies.places they lives.

It was an amazing experience for me. We visited there early in the morning around 7 AM. It was prayer time for the monks. They were very friendly and polite. One of the monk guided us by waving his hand to go inside the temple. After entering in the main temple I was stunned. It is so beautiful. So calm so serene. Behind the temple the mountains with snow is breath taking.

The Gyuto Monastery is one of the most famous monasteries and specializes in the study of Tantric meditation, Tantric ritual arts and Buddhist philosophy. It was founded in Tibet in 1474 by the main disciple of the first Dalai Lama, Jetsun Kunga Dhondup. After the communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, the monastery was re-established in India.  
It is the abode of Karmapa, the Head of the Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism. Karmapa means the one who carries out buddha-activity or the embodiment of all the activities of the Buddha. Also called TCV School, the main chamber of the monastery has a majestic statue of the Buddha and with the backdrop of the snow-clad Dhauladhar Mountains. Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje houses nearly 200 monks who practice the major Tantric texts including Guhyasamaja, Chakrasamvara and Yamantaka. They have passed these lineages to the younger generation of monks for more than 500 years.

Nice place. Spiritual holy and calm. In the laps of mountain the peace uh recieve is equal as heaven. The environment is spiritual. Great place

The Gyuto Monastery is a school of Tantric learning, established with the help and financial support of the Japanese Bentenshu sect (which itself is fairly recent: it was founded in 1952). Gyuto was founded to commemorate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama in 1989, and the monastery was formally inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 1996.  

The entrance to the Gyuto Monastery is impressive: the monastery buildings are painted a very vivid and deep yellow, which is visible from far off. Right in front of the temple building is the paved area which acts as a parking lot. Even standing here for a couple of minutes, looking at the temple, we got a glimpse of life in the monastery. Outside one of the nearby buildings, an elderly monk was sitting and reading.  
Opposite us, in the library building which is adjacent to the temple, a stream of little boy monks was hurrying in (while we were in the temple, we heard them chanting their lessons, and it was an amazing experience). An older monk, still perhaps in his teens or very early twenties, sprinted past, robes flying.  

You have to climb a couple of stories of broad steps to get to the temple. Take off your shoes outside and then go in, being careful of course to be silent, to not touch anything, and to not sit on the monks’ mats. Thangkas hang in a neat quadrilateral from the ceiling of this large, very clean hall. At the end facing the door are the altars, with the largest Buddha in the middle and more Buddhas and other deities—entire rows of them—in the smaller shrines on either side.  

No entry fee is charged, though of course you may leave a donation at the altar. Tourists are allowed only into the temple, not other parts of the monastery.

Peaceful place. Take your car inside the gate and you will find place to park inside otherwise Little tiring climb from main road.

Quiet, peaceful place. Visitors are only allowed into the temple, though we did see lots of novice monks in the and around the vicinity.

We saw a class in progress, the experience was ethereal. It felt as if we were transported to some other world

Good place to visit near Dharamshala. It is a standard Buddhist monastery, with the calm enviornment and beautiful furnishing.

A must visit tourist place if you visit Dharamshala. View of this monastery is just unforgettable. Calm and peaceful place to spend some time and feel the nature. You can go inside temple and relax.

A very holy place and blessings come your way once you visited this monestary. It's basically a karmapa monestary.

The great tantric institute called GyutoTantric Monastery (GyutoDratsang) was established for the preservation and promotion of the tradition of tantric teachings of the great TeacherTsongkhapa, thecrown among the learned and accomplished masters of Tibet, who had the transmission ofthe entire teachings of the Buddha, through Nagarjuna and other learned Indian Buddhist scholars of NalandaUniversityand great Tibetan translators and accomplished masters.

In 655 (AD), Tibetan Dharma King SongtsenGampo, who was an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, founded the two most historical and famous temples in Tibet – RasaTrulnang and Ramoche –to enshrine the Buddha’s two statues: JowoMikyoDorje and Jowo Shakyamuni. Later, due to political chaos in Tibet, the locations of the two statues were exchanged.  Therefore, at present, the statues are not at their original locations; JowoMikyoDorje is in the RamocheTemple and Jowo Shakyamuniin the Rasa TrulnangTemple.

 

In 1474 (AD), the Wood-Horse year, KungaDhondupPelSangpo (1419-1486) started teaching tantra at U-töJampalingmonasery, and gradually his disciples increased and thusthe name Gyuto (Upper) Tantric Monastery came into being. In the later part of life, when the water level of the KyichuRiverrose and posed danger to the city of Lhasa, DepaKyisho, the governor of Kyishoregion, requested him to ward off the threat of flood.

KungaDhondup, together with his disciples, performed peaceful and wrathful rituals and calmed down the river. As an appreciation for his kind deed, DepaKyisho offered him the Ramoche Temple, including its internal objects. KungaDhondupfounded a tantric monastery inside the temple and started teaching tantra. Later, by the kindness of the successive His Holiness theDalai Lamas, the monastery expanded both in terms of monks’number and tantric training and practice. It became an excellent monastic seat for the studies of monastic discipline, tantric practice and meditation, and has thus become an exemplary monastic seat.  

Status of Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Dalhousie

In 1959, due to an unprecedented political crisis in Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled to India, followed by thousands of Tibetan refugees. At that time, about eighty-three monks of the GyutoTantric Monastery escapedfrom Tibet to India and they were compelled to engage in different types of labour work to earn their livelihood. In spite of that, they made their best effort to continuously practise, teach and study their traditional tantric traditions. They stayed in Dalhousie, a hill station in Himachal Pradesh, for about fourteen years until they were relocated to Tenzin Gang, in north-eastern India, in 1975.

One of the best monasteries I've visited till date. The backdrop of snow capped mountains just adds to the beauty

A very well managed vast campus, with large hostel for students. Grandeur is one word which can summarize the scale of this monastery.