Breathtaking view of Drigong monastery

The breathtaking view of Drigong monastery near Tridom hot-spring. The monastery situates on a hill and is very popular for its sky burial site in whole Tibet. The monastery attracts lots of tourists and locals for their strong religious environment and beautiful scenery.

As a notable monastery in Lhasa, the Drigong Monastery stands at an elevation of 4,150m above sea level, about 150kms northeast of Lhasa city. It is named after its location and known as the head monastery of the Drigung Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Currently, it houses 250 to 300 monks.

As we know, sky burial is always a mysterious custom in Tibet for travelers. The sky burial site naturally becomes an attraction for tourists. Though sky burials take place throughout all of the Tibetan Plateau, the sky burial site at Drigong Monastery is the biggest and also the most famous one.

Sky burial is commonly performed by monks. It has become one of the more notable aspects of the Tibetan religious culture and many travelers to travel to Tibet. In sky burial, the bodies of the dead are put out for nature to decompose or for predatory birds to eat. As Buddhists believe in reincarnation, there is no need, in their view, to preserve the corpses.

Not far from the Drigong is a nunnery called Tidrum. The nunnery has a good location in the narrow gorge at the confluence of two steams. A pilgrimage route leads from the monastery to the nunnery. It takes around a day to do the 16km walk, but you will be rewarded with a wonderful hot spring bath on your arrival. For a ridiculous price of about 0.6$ you can bath in the hot spring as you like. It is said that the medicinal hot springs can cure a variety of diseases.     

It is deserve you to take this place in your Lhasa tour. Not only the scenery around the monastery is attractive, the drive from Lhasa to it is also pleasant when going through several villages and following the famous Kyi Chu River. On the way, you can also do a detour to Ganden Monastery, one of the biggest monasteries in Lhasa or the birthplace of the famous Tibet King Songtsen Gampo who was born at a small town called Gyama.