Raphel Lhakhang (Pal Sangchen Ugyen Tsuglag khang)
Description Raphel lhakhang is located in Samchoeling village, which is a drive of approximately one and a half hours from the main Trongsa town. The temple is a further 10 minute walk from Samchoeling...
View ArticleDangdung Yulsar Lhakhang
Description Dangdung Lhakhang lies above the Trongsa-Zhemgang highway, and on the left side of the Mangdechu. It is approximately a two and a half hour drive from Trongsa town towards Zhemgang. The...
View ArticleBaling Lhakhang
Description Baling Lhakhang is a community-owned temple located above the Trongsa-Zhemgang highway near Koshila. It is about 83 km from the main town of Trongsa, and there is about 8km of feeder road...
View ArticleYueling Namgyel Choling Lhakhang
Description Yueling Namgyel Choling Lhakhang is located in Yueling Village, which is a thirty-minute walk from the Sherubling Higher Secondary. We can also drive to the site, which is 7 kilometers away...
View ArticleSinphu Guru Lhakhang
Description The temple, a small one-story stone and wooden house, is located at the top of Sinphu village. The village can be reached from Trongsa Bjizam bridge, which has a road check point, by a one...
View ArticleTatsherla Nagtshang (rTa Tsher La Snag Tshang)
Description The Tatsherla Nagtshang is located five kilometers away from the Trongsa-Zhemgang highway in Langthel gewog. A feeder road connects the Nagtshang to the highway. It is a three-story...
View ArticleBayling Lhakhang
Description The temple is located in Bayling village, about 23 kilometers south of the main town of Trongsa towards Zhemgang. The site is a further 4 kilometers from the main highway, and can be...
View ArticleDungbi Lhakhang
Description The temple is located in Tashi Dingkha village, which is about 23 kilometers south of the main town of Trongsa towards Zhemgang. The temple is three kilometers from the main highway and can...
View ArticleGagar Lhakhang
Description Gagar Lhakhang (temple) is located northwest of Trongsa town, about 18 km from Trongsa’s Sherubling Higher Secondary School. The Trongsa–Kharshong road leading to Gagar Lhakhang is a...
View ArticleBonbji / Bemji Choje Nagtshang
Description The three-storey Bonbji Choje Nagtshang (a building traditionally belonging to rulers or religious leaders and their lineage) is located approximately 16 km (a 1½ hour drive) up a feeder...
View ArticlePhuntsho Choling Gonpa
Description Phuntsho Choling Gonpa sits at an elevation of 3100 m and is a three hour walk (approximately 6 kms) up the mountain from Taktse, a village located 23 km from Trongsa town along the...
View ArticleSinphu Samten Tsemo Lhakhang
Description སྲིན་ཕུ་བསམ་གཏན་རྩེ་མོ་གི་ལྷ་ཁང་འདི་ ཐོག་ཚད་གཉིས་ཡོདཔ་དང་། གཡས་གཡོན་གྱི་ཟུར་གཉིས་ལས་མར་འཁྱམས་ར་ཐོག་ཚད་གཉིས་ཅན་རེ་སྦེ་ ད་རེས་ནངས་པ་གི་འབྲུག་པའི་སློབ་གྲྭ་གི་བཟོ་རྣམ་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ཡོད། འདི་ཡང་...
View ArticleLingtoe Lhakhang
Description Lingtoe Lhakhang (temple) is beautifully located on the top of a hill in Dangdung village in Langthel gewog, Trongsa district. It is an hour’s walk to reach the temple from Dangdung...
View ArticleDrangon (Drangla) Samten Choling Gonpa
Description Drangon Samten Choling Gonpa (monastery) is located at 2582m and is surrounded by mountains and few homes. It is 38 km from Trongsa town in the direction of Wangdue Phodrang (west) and a...
View ArticleTashi Choling Gonpa ( Drametang lhakhang)
Description Tashi Choling Gonpa, commonly known as Drametang Lhakhang, is located near the village of Samcholing, which is 27 km from Trongsa along the Trongsa–Zhemgang highway. One can reach Tashi...
View ArticleSherling Lhakhang
Description Sherling Lhakhang is located in Sherling village, Langthel gewog, which is about 53 km south of Trongsa town toward Zhemgang. The temple is about 20 kilometers from Langthel town and is...
View ArticleTerdrag / Terbrag Lhakhang
Description Terdrag Lhakhang is located approximately 3 hours by foot from Namthir village, which is 55 km from Trongsa town and approximately 4 km above the Trongsa–Gelephu highway. The monastery’s...
View ArticleKuelbung Gonpa
Description Kuelbung Gonpa is located in Namthir village, which is about 4 kilometers above the Trongsa–Gelephu highway and 55 kms from Trongsa town. It then takes approximately 3 hours to walk to...
View ArticleHewang Thran ཧེ་དབང་ཕྲན།
History To date, there seems to be no texts regarding the origin of Hewang Thran, celebrated every year on the 10th day of the 10th month of the Bhutanese calendar. Hewang stands for “temple” in the...
View ArticleDozhong Gonpa (also called Dorji Gonpa)
Description Dozhong Gonpa (temple) is a modest two-storey traditional building located in Dozhong village, just above the Trongsa–Bumthang highway, approximately 15 kms from Trongsa town. Although its...
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