Lhasa Trip Yeshi Tshogye: By Flight Round Way
-Collection of passports and signature at airport before moving to the hotel
-Kora at Boudhanath Chorten and nearby temples
-Process Group Visa for Tibet
-Kora at Temples in Kathmandu
-Process Group Visa for Tibet
-Kora at Temples in Kathmandu
-Departure to Tribhuvan Airport
-Flight to Lhasa Gonggar Airport
-Pick up from Gonggar Airport and transfer to the old city of Lhasa
-Your hotel is near Jokhang Temple and you can walk around in the evening time
-Full rest for acclimatization
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The Potala Palace is a group of religious and administrative buildings in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The palace is sacred in Tibetan Buddhism and once served as the seat of the government of Tibet.
The Potala Palace is located on top of a hill named Mar-po-ri (Red Mountain), 425 feet (130 meters) above the Lhasa River valley. The buildings of the palace rise up dramatically from their rocky base.
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The Jokhang was founded during King Songtsen Gampo's reign of the Tibetan Empire. According to tradition, the temple was built for the king's two brides: Princess Wencheng of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal. Both are said to have brought important Buddhist statues and images from China and Nepal to Tibet, which were housed here, as part of their dowries.
The oldest part of the temple was built in 652. Over the next 900 years, the temple was enlarged several times with the last renovation done in 1610 by the Fifth Dalai Lama.
Following the death of Gampo, the image in Ramcho Lake temple was moved to the Jokhang temple for security reasons. When King Tresang Detsen ruled from 755 to 797, the Buddha image of the Jokhang temple was hidden, as the king's minister was hostile to the spread of Buddhism in Tibet.
During the late ninth and early tenth centuries, the Jokhang and Ramoche temples were said to have been used as stables. In 1049 Atisha, a renowned teacher of Buddhism from Bengal taught in Jokhang.
-Visit Norbu Lingka Phodrang
-Jowo Ramoche
-Either one of Sera/Drepong monastery
-Drive to Tsurphu monastery, Karmapa summer residence and Karmapa drupchhu
-Visit to Zhongpalhachu
-Nenang
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Tsurphu was founded by DΓΌsum Khyenpa the 1st Karmapa Lama (1110-1193) in 1159. He laid the foundation on the site for an establishment of a seat there by making offerings to the local protectors, the dharmapalas and territorial divinities (yul lha).
In 1189 he revisited the site and founded his main seat with the capacity to accommodate at least 1000 monks in the monastery.
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Nenang (ΰ½ΰ½ΰ½¦ΰΌΰ½ΰ½ΰΌΰ½ΰ½ΰ½Όΰ½ΰΌΰ½) is a historical gompa for Buddhist monks and nuns belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located west of Lhasa. Nenang Monastery is the seat of the Nenang Pawo, an important tulku of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
In the ninth century Guru Rinpoche lived in the place credited with the founding of Buddhism in Tibet. Guru was also said to have gone through for penance in the caves in the precincts of the monastery.
According to oral tradition, Padmasmabhava lived in this cave for three years and three months in retreat. However, establishment of nunnery here is credited to a nun named JetsΓΌn (or KhachΓΆ) DrΓΆldor Wangmo (Rje btsureen nam mkhaβ spyod sgrol rdor dbang mo), inferred to be a Dakini.
Some also say it was founded in 1333 by Tokden Drakpa Senge (1283β1349), the first Shamarpa.
-Visit Gaden Monastery and Drak Yarpa
-Verocchana meditation Cave
-Visit Drigung monastery and Tirdrum nunnery -In the afternoon hot spring
-Travel back to Lhasa
-Visit Shugseb Gonpa
-Gagrithoekar (Cave of Kunchhen Longchen Rabjam)
-Zurkhardo Stupas
-Mindrolling Monastery (The oldest Nyinmapa Monastery)
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Shuksep or Shugsep (Tib. ཀུΰ½ΰΌΰ½ΰ½¦ΰ½Ίΰ½ΰΌ shug gseb) β a nunnery located thirty miles from Lhasa on the slopes of Mount Gangri ThΓΆkar, a site associated with the great master Longchenpa. It was founded by the great female master Lochen ChΓΆnyi Zangmo.
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Gangri ThΓΆkar (ΰ½ΰ½ΰ½¦ΰΌΰ½’ΰ½²ΰΌΰ½ΰ½Όΰ½ΰΌΰ½ΰ½ΰ½’ΰΌ), 'The White Skull Snow Mountain', is a famous peak in Central Tibet. It was here, in the hermitage of Orgyen Dzong, that Longchenpa taught and composed many of his most important writings. Centuries later, Lochen ChΓΆnyi Zangmo founded Shuksep Nunnery on the mountain's lower slopes.
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Orgyen Mindroling Monastery (ཨོΰΌΰ½’ΰΎΰΎ±ΰ½ΰΌΰ½¦ΰΎ¨ΰ½²ΰ½ΰΌΰ½ΰΎ²ΰ½Όΰ½£ΰΌΰ½ΰΎ³ΰ½²ΰ½ΰΌ) β one of the Six "Mother" Nyingma Monasteries.
It was founded in 1676 by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje, aka Rigdzin Terdak Lingpa with his brother Lochen Dharmashri.
The monastery enjoyed a close association with the Fifth Dalai Lama, but was destroyed during the Dzungar war of 1717-8, during which Terdak Lingpa's younger brother, the great scholar Lochen Dharmashri was killed.
The heads of Mindroling are the hereditary successors of Minling Terchen. Minling Trichen Rinpoche, was the eleventh throne-holder, and after his passing in 2008, his son Dungse Dalha Gyaltsen (b. 1959) from Tibet, became the twelfth and current throne-holder.
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It was built by Shantaraksita to commemorate the place where King Drison Detsen first met Guru Rinpoche. There are five resplendent stupas representing the Five Lineages of Enlightenment.
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Tibetβs oldest geomantic temple, dating from the reign of King Songtsen Gampo built in order to press down the limbs of the supine body of an ogress on which Tibet is believed to be situated.
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Sheldrak is the sacred place of Guru Rinpocheβs attributes, nestled high in the craggy summits. Founded in the 14th century by the treasure-finder Sangye Lingpa, it contains images of Guru Rinpoche with his two foremost consorts, the Eight Manifestations, and Karmapa Rangjung Dorje.
The crystal of this site is a highly polished blackish green rock onthe cave floor. Above the temple, there are three important cave hermitages: the main one is Sheldrak Drubpuk, the first of Guru Rinpocheβs meditation caves in Tibet, from where the indigenous hostile forces and demons were bound under an oath of allegiance to Buddhism.
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Tshering Jong ( ΰ½ΰ½ΊΰΌΰ½’ΰ½²ΰ½ΰΌΰ½£ΰΎΰ½Όΰ½ΰ½¦ΰΌ) β the monastery of JikmΓ© Lingpa in the Yarlung Valley. It was the seat of Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche who was a resident teacher from 1957 till 1959.
-Hike to Chimphu Meditaion Cave (Pelreg)
-Sangtok Samye monastery
-Longchenpa cave (Ekazati fresco & Zarahula images are in the temple), it is also Nubchen Sangay Yesheyβs birthplace
-Visit Heiphuri, if time allows
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This mountain retreat above Samye is revered as the sacred place of Guru Rinpocheβs speech. This is where he taught the Twenty-Five Disciples and where numerous disciples had profound realizations.
Today, there are a hundred or more yogis, men and women, living there in retreat. As we hike through Chimphu, there are many occasions to meet with them and make personal offerings.
It boasts many significant sites, such as a 15 meter-high Copper-Coloured Mountain rock, rock-impressions of Guru Rinpoche's hat and Yeshe Tsogyal's foot.
The cave of Drakmar Keutsang is where Guru Rinpoche bestowed the first Vajrayana empowerment to his eight disciples including Yeshe Tsogyal.
It is also here that Jigme Lingpa, through a series of visions, received the Longchen Nying-thik transmission in the 18th century.
In the upper reaches of Chimphu, one will see Longchenpaβs cave and Tsogyal Zimpuk where Tsogyal practiced with her consort, Atsara Sale.
On the descent, we pass the funerary stupa marking the place where Longchen Rabjampa passed away in 1365.
Yeshe Tsogyal took her first Buddhist vows at Chimphu in the presence of Guru Rinpoche and returned there many times throughout her life.
We will visit her southern cave where she spent twelve years in retreat. Later in her life, after concealing countless treasures all over the Himalayan region, she returned to Chimphu, teaching and bestowing empowerments.
While she was there, she invoked Guru Rinpoche who appeared from the southwest in the midst of a brilliant light and predicted Tibet's future as well as Tsogyal's passing from the world.
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Samye (ΰ½ΰ½¦ΰ½ΰΌΰ½‘སΰΌ), full name 'Samye Mighur Lhundrub Tsula Khang' and Shrine of Unchanging Spontaneous Presence is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen.
Shantarakshita began construction around 763, and Tibetan Vajrayana founder Guru Padmasambhava tamed the local spirits for its completion in 779. The first Tibetan monks were ordained there.
Samye Monastery is located in the Chimpu valley (Mchims phu), south of Lhasa, next the Hapori mountain, in the Yarlung Valley.
The site is in the present administrative region of Gra Nang or Drananga Lhoka.
-Visit Drakyang Dzong
-Khandu Yeshey Tshogyal Lhatsho
-Eka Za Tee temple (Nubchen Sangay Yesheyβs birthplace)
-Drakmar Emalung
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Drakyang Dzong (སΰΎΰΎ²ΰ½ΰ½¦ΰΌΰ½‘ΰ½ΰΌΰ½’ΰΎ«ΰ½Όΰ½ΰΌ) β a sacred site located in Dranang county south of Lhasa. This The site is associated with Guru Rinpoche, whose Buddha-body is represented by these caves.
Drak Yangdzong is also an important place for treasure revelation, with both Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyel both concealing treasures there.
There are 8 sacred places in Tibet and Bhutan blessed by Guru Rinpoche himself for the practice of Eight Herukas. The Eight Herukas of the Nyingma mahayoga tradition are said to have been received by Padmasambhava from the Eight Vidyadharas or Eight Great Acharyas. Drak Yangdzong is considered to be one of them. Here Guru Rinpoche hid the sacred teachings on the Vajrakilaya Tantra.
The first cave, Shinje Drup-ne Zho, 100 sq m in the area, with walls 15 m high ad 10 m wide. Here the main images are of Padmasambhava in the form of Nangsi Zilnon flanked by Yeshi Tsogyal and Mandarava.
The second cave, Shinje Rolpei Drub-ne, is reached by a ladder and a dark narrow tunnel, where one needs to hold a rope to get inside. Here located the main sight of Guru Sangwa Drupuk, where Guru Rinpoche passed three years in retreat.
The third cave, Jago Ranjung Drupuk, also known by the name of Nego Sarpa has amazing limestone formations inside, which believed to be the part of a hidden land βBeyulβ.
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The birthplace of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal is known as Tsogyal Lhatso. In the 8th century, Yeshe Tsogyal was born there. Local people said that at her birth, a lake expanded in size and there was a sandalwood tree growing near the lake.
The lake later has become a visionary lake and both the lake and the tree are called natural forces which sustain the spirit of Yeshe Tsogyal.
Meanwhile there are also two springs flowing with Yeshe Tsogyalβs secret breast milk and there are white flowers growing on the bank even in winter time.
-Drive to Lhasa Gonggar Airport early morning and flight to Kathmandu
-Shopping and Kora in Kathmandu
Arrival to Home Sweet Home
