Explore Tibet Tim introduces Sami monastery Zamling Chisang Festival travelers
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012(PRWEB) April 16, 2012
Explore Tibet team, professional Tibet travel agency based in Lhasa, introduces Sami monastery Zamling Chisang Festival of passengers and says: This Festival Honors Guru Rinpoche and the establishment of the first Tibets Buddhist monastery. Visitors should know something of the historical and cultural significance of this sacred site before their trips Tibet.
The Sami
​​monastery, locatedat by the river Brahmaputra, about 220 kilometers from Lhasa, was built in the 8th century by Tibetan king Trisong Detsen. Ever since the first king of Tibet in the last century, Buddhism friend lost favor with people. King wanted to revitalize the practice of building a new center of monastic training. He invited Shantarakshita, a monk from India to oversea construction and start promoting Buddhist teachings.
Several disasters occurred during construction of the monastery, one of the leading workers to believe evil spirits that were Their blocking progress. Padmasambhava, sage-guru is better known in Tibet as Guru Rinpoche and Shantarakshitas contemporary, was summoned by the king from North India to face with evil spirits, block construction. He succeeded in overcoming the ghosts, and I turned into protectors of Tibet. Guru Rinpoche later becam IMPORTANT transmitter of the teachings of Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism throughout Tibet and Bhutan.
Guru Rinpoches
triumph over evil spirits Every year we celebrate the 15 th day of 5th month of Tibetan lunar calendar festival called Zamling Chisang (Universal Prayer Day). This year the festival falls on 3 July, and monks and pilgrims traveling to the monastery to offer prayers and sang the crowd, which is a special type of powdered incense. Visitors to the monastery during the festival ourselves we be witnessing one of Tibets most important cultural traditions of Tibet tours.