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Thomas Edward Gordon

Hemis Monastery is a Drukpa Kagyu monaster in Ladakh. It was founded in the eleventh century and restored in 1630s by Taktsang Repa Ngawang Gyatso, a key figure in the religious tradition of Ladakh, under the patronage of King Sengge Namgyel. 

Sources

Rizvi, Janet. 1996. Ladakh: crossroads of high Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 232-234.

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