Lamayuru Monastery
Lamayuru or Yuru Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lamayouro, Leh district, Ladakh, India. It is situated on the Srinagar-Leh highway 15 kilometres east of the Fotu La at a height of 3,510 metres and 19 km southwest of Khalsi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: Buddhist monastery of Ladakh, India
- Also known as: “Lāmayūrū”, “Lamayuru Gompa”, “Yungdrung Gompa”, “Yungdrung Monastery”, “Yuru Gompa”, and “Yuru Monastery”
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Lamayuru
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Lamayouro is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. The Lamayuru Monastery is located nearby. It is located in the Khalsi tehsil. The region is also referred to as ‘Moon Land’, due to its terrain's resemblance to the surface of the Moon.
Lamayuru Monastery
- Categories: Gompa and locality
- Location: Khalsi, Leh district, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.28271° or 34° 16′ 58″ northLongitude
76.77396° or 76° 46′ 26″ eastElevation
3,615 metres (11,860 feet)Open location code
8J6R7QMF+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 245774824OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Telugu—“Lamayuru Monastery” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Lamayuru”
- Czech: “Lamajuru”
- Czech: “Lamayuru”
- Dutch: “Lamayuru Monastery”
- French: “Lamayuru”
- German: “Lamayuru-Kloster”
- Hindi: “युगं मठ युरु मठ मठ लमयुरु गोम्पा युंग गोम्प युरु गोम्पा”
- Hindi: “लमयुरु मोनस्तेर्य्”
- Hindi: “लामायुरु गोम्पा”
- Italian: “Lamayuru”
- Italian: “Monastero di Lamayuru”
- Japanese: “ラマユル・ゴンパ”
- Japanese: “ラマユルゴンパ僧院”
- Japanese: “ラマユル寺”
- Kannada: “ಲಮಯೂರು ಮಠ”
- Malayalam: “ലമയൂർ”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Lamayuru”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Yungdrung”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Yuru”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Lamayuru”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Yungdrung”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Yuru”
- Russian: “Ламаюру”
- Sanskrit: “लमयुरु मोनस्तेर्य”
- Swedish: “Lamayuruklostret”
- Telugu: “లమాయూరు మొనాస్టరి”
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