Karsha Monastery
Karsha Monastery or Karsha Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in the Padum Village of the Zanskar region of the union territory of Ladakh in northern India.- 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
Padum is a town and the administrative headquarter of the Zanskar district of Ladakh in 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 district, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.53265° or 33° 31′ 58″ north
Longitude
76.90472° or 76° 54′ 17″ east
Open location code
8J5RGWM3+3V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
Wikidata ID
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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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