Karsha Monastery
Karsha Monastery or Karsha Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in the Padum Valley of the Zanskar region of the union territory of Ladakh in northern India. The Doda River flows past the monastery from its source at the Drang Drung Glacier of the Pensi La.Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple in northern India
- Also known as: “Karsha Gompa” and “Kursha Monastery”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Padum.
Padum
Town
Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Padum is the main town and the administrative centre of the Zanskar tehsil in Kargil district, Ladakh, India. Named after the Buddhist guru Padmasambhava, it was historically one of the two main capitals of the Zanskar Kingdom, the other being Zangla. Padum is situated 7 km south of Karsha Monastery.
Karsha Monastery
- Categories: Gompa, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Zanskar, Kargil, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.53265° or 33° 31′ 58″ northLongitude
76.90472° or 76° 54′ 17″ eastOpen location code
8J5RGWM3+3VOpenStreetMap ID
way 710697750OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q3320299
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Telugu—“Karsha Monastery” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kursha Monastery”
- Albanian: “Manastiri Kursha”
- French: “Karsha Gompa”
- French: “Karsha”
- French: “monastère de Karsha”
- French: “Monastère de Karsha”
- Hindi: “कुर्शा मठ”
- Japanese: “カルシャゴンパ”
- Japanese: “カルシャ僧院”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Karsha”
- Portuguese: “Gompa de Kursha”
- Portuguese: “Karsha Chamspaling”
- Portuguese: “Kursha Chamspaling”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Karsha”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Kursha”
- Russian: “Карша Гомпа”
- Russian: “Курча-Гомпа”
- Slovenian: “Karša”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Karša”
- Telugu: “కర్ష మఠం”
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Highlights include Karsha Gompa and Buddha Statue.
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