PEMAYANGTSE MONASTERY

 PEMAYANGTSE MONASTERY

The PEMAYANGTSE MONASTERY is a Buddhist monastery in Pemayangtse , near pelling , a small hill town in the district of West Sikkim,India . The town is located at the distance of 10km from the district headquarters of  Geyzing and 131km from Gangtok Sikkim  .Planned, design and founded by Lama Lhatsun chempo in 1674 ,it is one of the oldest and premier monastery of Sikkim also the most famous in the Sikkim. It was established in the year 1705. The monastery follows the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism and control all the monasteries of that order in Sikkim. The monks of this monestry are normal chosen from the Bhutias of Sikkim. 

Th monastery was built for "pur monks " (Tatshang) meaning  "monks of pur lineage",celibate and without any physical abnormality . This practice is still retained. Only the monks of Pemayangtse monastery are  entitled to the title "ta-tshang". The head lama of this  monastery have the unique privilege of anointing the chogyals of the erstwhile monastery of the Sikkim with holy water . Pemayangtse means perfect " sublime lotus", and said to be one of the four plexus of the human body.

The Pemayangtse monastery is a part of Buddhist religious pilgrimage , the first monastery at Yukson is known as dubdi monastery followed by Norbugang  chorten 

The monastery is very closely linked to the reign of chador Namgyal at Rabdentse. Chador a very religious person . He had taken several initiative to spread of Buddhist religion in Sikkim . He had decreed that the second of every three sons of bhutia family shall be ordained a monks of the Pemayangtse monastery.

During his reign , the Guru Lhakhang Tashiding (1715) was built. He not only patronized Buddhist religious places  but also introduced the religious dances. It is very amazing places  mostly for tourist and from here we can see the beautiful view of kanchanjang. And at any month we can visit Pemayangtse monastery.