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SIKKIM- Places of Tourist Interest - Pemayangtse
Pemayangtse (West Sikkim)
The 115 km drive from Gangtok to the Pemayangtse Monastery plunges down
into the hot, humid valley of the Teesta river where broad-leafed tropical
plants thrive and then rises to a 2,085 m high ridge. Here in the 17th
century, a Buddhist sage set up a hermitage which grew into Pemayangtse
Monastery. Excellent murals brighten this ancient shrine’s walls and
ceiling and there is a wooden model of a heavenly palace as revealed in a
dream to the founder of this monastery, Lhatsun Chempo.
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