Thursday, March 3, 2016

Trip to Paro Taktsang (Tiger nest)

Para Taktsang. Source:Wikipedia
Paro Taktsang (Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་ spa phro stag tshang / spa gro stag tshang) is the popular name of Taktsang Palphug Monastery (also known as Tiger's Nest), a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and temple complex, located in the cliff side of the upper Paro valley, in Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup (stag tshang seng ge bsam grub) cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan. Today, Paro Taktsang is the best known of the thirteen taktsang or "tiger lair" caves in which he meditated.

The longing thoughts and observations from recent trip to Paro Taktsang need to be shared. One who visit will know the basic rules and regulation. I am trying to let who plan to visit to understand basic rules and regulation of visiting Paro Taktsang.

You may go to visit with informal dress and you will land up without having an opportunity to go inside to visit scared status. It is just simple to let you grasp an opportunity to visit inside to view scared status and all by going in formal dress, (National dress, gho for man and kira for women). The police checking before entering the fortress will make thorough check; whether you with national dress, taking camera and mobile phone inside? They don’t bother if you are foreigner, of course not allowing camera and mobile phone apply to you.

What is the time you are going to visit? At 12 noon to 1 pm or 1 to 2 pm? You can't visit whenever you wish to visit. They usually close 1 to 2 pm for lunch break. I had a thought regards to this timing. Why they close for lunch time? That is not a shop or office. That is simply a fortress with scared status from long time ago to show to pilgrimages.

Visit once if you can.

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