Key Monastery

Key monastery is the biggest monastery in the Spiti valley. Spectacularly situated on a pyramid-shaped hill, it is at an altitude of 4116 meters. It was established in 11th century, and it has ancient buddhist scrolls and paintings. Key Monastery is considered to be a very old seat of Buddhist learning. The seat of Lochen Tulku, the 24th Lotsawa Rimpoche (reincarnation of Rinchen Zangpo, the great translator). Its hilltop position points to a post thirteenth century construction. The monks? dwellings rise in a closely packed cluster up the south and east to the narrow summit, where the main temple building is situated. The three-storeyed structure consists largely of storage rooms at the bottom level while the middle floor houses the dukhang and the upper floor has another temple and the head lama?s residence on one side of an open terrace. The dukhang contains well-executed wall paintings. But Key?s major artistic wealth lies in its collection of thankas.

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Beautiful landscape, Feel like visiing the place. Thanks for sharing.

Thanking you for sharing these beautiful images of Spiti and the information,Nilesh.