Alchi Monastery
Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Union Territory of Ladakh, India.Photo: Drmaliktariq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India
- Also known as: “A-lci Monastery”, “Alchi Goempa”, “Alchi Gömpa”, and “Alci Monastery”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Plant.
Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Plant
Dam
Photo: Mehrajmir13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the Indus River situated at Alchi village, 75 kilometres from Leh in the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alchi and Suspol, Leh.
Alchi
Photo: Drmaliktariq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alchi is a village between Leh and Lamayuru in Ladakh, India. It sites beside the Indus River and its main attraction is the fabulous Alchi Gompa or Buddhist monastic complex.
Suspol, Leh
Village
Suspol, also spelled Saspol, is a village and eponymous tehsil headquarter in the Leh district of Ladakh in India. Saspol village is home to Saspol Caves. The interior walls of some of these caves are decorated with unique 15th century CE wall paintings.
Alchi Monastery
- Category: Gompa
- Location: Khalsi, Leh Ladakh, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Tibetan—“Alchi Monastery” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “আলচি বৌদ্ধবিহার”
- Dutch: “Alchi (klooster)”
- Dutch: “Alchi”
- French: “Alchi”
- German: “Kloster Alchi”
- Japanese: “アルチ・ゴンパ”
- Japanese: “アルチ修道院”
- Japanese: “アルチ寺”
- Malayalam: “അൽച്ചി”
- Oriya: “ଆଲଚି ବୌଦ୍ଧବିହାର”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Alchi”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Alchi”
- Russian: “Алчи-Гомпа”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Alči”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de Alchi”
- Telugu: “ఆల్చి మొనాస్టరి”
- Thai: “อารามอาจี”
- Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི་ཆོས་འཁོར།”
- Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི་དགོམ་པ།”
- Tibetan: “ཨ་ལྕི།”
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