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Tawang Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in India and the second largest in the world after Lhasa’s Potala. Perched at 3,048 metres in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh near the Bhutanese border, it was founded in the 17th century by Merag Lama Lodre Gyatso. The monastery is deeply connected to the Dalai Lama institution — the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, was born here. The monastery is affiliated with the Gelug tradition and houses around 500 monks. The monastery library contains over 400 ancient manuscripts and thangkas. The surrounding Tawang Valley is spectacularly beautiful and the journey through the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh is an adventure in itself.
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