Taktshang Goemba Trek Across Paro Chu Ravine - Bhutan 2011 HD
Bhutan’s most venerated pilgrimage site, ’Taktshang’ (or Taktsang - literally as “Tiger’s Lair’) Goemba (monastery) is a complex of seven temples at 3,120 metres asl perched atop an 800-m almost vertical sheer rock-faced cliff. It is built over caves where legend says Indian Guru Padmasambhava flew to on the back of a tigress and meditated in the 8th century, establishing Buddhism there, and numerous other Buddhist saints (including tertön Chögyam Trungpa) have meditated or attained realization there. After
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Taktshang Goemba Trek Across Paro Chu Ravine - Bhutan 2011 HD