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Bhakha Monastery "Bhakha" means burial place. It also means a place where the river roils. Legend connects it with the Chinese princess Wunchung Kongjo, who was sent in tribute to the Tibetan King Songtsen Gompo in the seventh century.
The very capable minister Gar Tongtsen had negotiated the alliance tribute, and was to deliver her to Lhasa. He fell in love with her along the way, and in the course of their meandering journey into Tibet, she bore his child. The child died while they were traveling through Powo, where India now meets Tibet. Princess Wunshing was an expert in the sciences of geomancy and astrology, and she chose a bluff ovelooking the lower Powo river as a burial place for her child. She said the place there was, "like a knot in the earth."
Bhakha monastery was built on that place in a forest of tall pines.
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Below is the inspiring view from the monastery's doors.
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