Tawang Monastery is one of the oldest and biggest Monastery of Mahayana Sect in Asia founded by Mera Lama Loder Gyatso in 1681 AD. It is located atop a hillock at a height of about 10000 ft. above the mean sea level near Tawang, Headquarters of Tawang District, State Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Largest fortified complex covering an area of 135 sq. metres, enclosed by a compound wall of 610 metre long, and comprising of 65 residential buildings, 10 other structures lanes and by-lanes etc. The main Gompa as well as the Library building are the most important among them. The library has valuable old scriptures mainly Kanjur and Tanjur numbering 850 bundles. There is a museum inside the Monastery which has been established since 13-10-2001. the Monastery is locally called as Tawang Golden Namgya Lhatse.
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