Large Prayer Wheel

Large Prayer Wheel is a Buddhist temple in Leh district, Ladakh. Large Prayer Wheel is situated nearby to the Buddhist temple Thikse Monastery, as well as near Thiksey Museum.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thikse Monastery and Shey Monastery.

Thikse Monastery

Buddhist temple

Photo: Shashank Mehendale, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thiksey Monastery or Thiksey Gompa is a Buddhist monastery affiliated with the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on top of a hill in Thiksey approximately 19 kilometres east of Leh, in the Ladakh region of northern India. Thikse Monastery is situated 110 metres south of Large Prayer Wheel.

Shey Monastery

Castle

Photo: Kmohankar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shey Monastery or Gompa or the Shey Palace are complex structures located on a hillock in Shey, 15 kilometres to the south of Leh in Ladakh, northern India on the Leh-Manali road. Shey Monastery is situated 3½ km northwest of Large Prayer Wheel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thiksey and Shey.

Thiksey

Village

Photo: Kiran Jonnalagadda, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thiksey is a village and the headquarters of its eponymous block and tehsil in Leh district, Ladakh, India. The Thikse Monastery is located here.

Shey

Village

Photo: Kiran L Reddy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leh, the main capital of Ladakh, India, is on the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir. Shey is situated 3 km northwest of Large Prayer Wheel.

Chuchat Yakma

Village

Chuchat Yakma, also known as Chuchot Yokma, is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Chushot tehsil. Chuchat Yakma is situated 6 km west of Large Prayer Wheel.

Large Prayer Wheel

Type: Buddhist temple
Categories: place of worship and religion
Location: Leh district, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

34.05747° or 34° 3′ 27″ north

Longitude

77.66638° or 77° 39′ 59″ east

Open location code

8J6V3M48+XH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11209484346

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

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