Drak Yerpa Hermitage, Tibet
Drak Yerpa Hermitage in Lhasa, Tibet, video by budgettibettour.com
Optional Day Tour-Drak Yerpa Monastery
If you have more time during travel in Lhasa, Drak Yerpa Monastery is a wonderful place to visit. The biggest feature of Drak Yerpa Monastery is that it was bulit in the moutain cave by using physical features of Mt. La Genib, which was called “ Monastery in the cave”.
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Drak Yerpa
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Lhasa City Tour with Drak Yerpa Monastery
Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, is an ancient city with a history of over 1,300 years. It is also known as the City of Sunlight.” Stay over there for 4 nights will help you understand better this mysterious territory.
Day-by-day Itinerary
D01 Arrival in Lhasa
Arrive at Gonggar Airport (3500m), welcome by the local tour guide, transfer 60km (paved road, about 1 hour drive ) to the city, drive along the Yalutsangpo River and Lhasa River, enjoy the unique scenery of Tibetan style villages and Nyetang Buddha along the way ,check in at Thangka Hotel (3-4*) or similar in Lhasa (3658m) and rest for acclimatization.
D02 Lhasa
After breakfast at the hotel, take a tour to Potala Palace. It was the local government location, and was divided into two parts, the white palace and red one; it was also the highest castle-style palace in the world; Visit Jolkhang Temple and Barkhor Market, the heart of the old Lhasa town, here you’ll enjoy fascinating combination of deep religiosity and push and shove market economics. In Tibetan Buddhism Jokhang is also regarded as the center of the Universe, it is a must sightseeing in Lhasa. (B,L)
D03 Lhasa
Enjoy a day tour to Drak Yerpa Monastery- A folk song is popular in Tibet, Lhasa is the holy spirit axis of Tibet. Yerpa is the spirit axis of Lhasa. If you go to Lhasa instead of Yerpa equals to making a clothes without collar.Called as the secret place hidden behind the Holy City, the Drak Yerpa monastery has some of the oldest and famous meditation caves in the area. Built on a hillside with more than 80 meditation caves, Drak Yerpa owns over 1,500 years history. Some of the caves are associated with the great names of Tibetan Buddhism: Songtsan Gampo, the first ruler of a united Tibet; Padmasambhava, a sage guru who was instrumental in bringing Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century; and Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje, one of the twenty-five disciples of Padmasambhava who is said to have hidden here after assassinating an anti-Buddhist King. Return to Lhasa. (B,L)
D04 Departure
Transfer to the airport for your next destination. (B)
The price includes:
1. 3 nights 3-star hotel accommodation based on a double occupancy with daily breakfast
2. 2 lunches at local restaurants
3. Entrance fees to the sites mentioned above
4. Service of English (German/Spanish/French/Japanese/Russian)-speaking guide upon request
5. Airport transfers and transportation during the excursion mentioned above
6. Tibet permission and insurance
The price does not include:
1. Domestic flights to/from Lhasa
2. Dinners
3. Personal expenses
4. Tips to local guide and driver
Note:
* Since the caves and temples were built on the cliff of the mountain with an elevation of 4000 meters, it is a physically challenging tour. Please consider the tour according to your own physical condition.
* Single Supplement is USD$ 195 per person
Drak Yerpa. Драк Йерпа.
Cave complex Drak Yerpa. Meditation caves Drak Yerpa in Tibet.
Пещерный комплекс Драк Йерпа. Медитационные пещеры
Драк Йерпа в Тибете.
Kora around main Buddha statue in Drak Yerpa cave temple, Tibet
2012-09-03
Find a Meditation Place in Lhasa
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01 17 Person Asian Sherpa Nekorwa Mt Kailash, Lhasa group 2018
Kathmandu Kerung, Gugekingdom, Kailash Kora, Xigatse, Gyangtse, Tshedang and Lhasa
26th July 2018, Group briefing and Dinner at Asian Trekking, club house.
01st Aug, Drive to Syabrubesi around 160 Km,
02nd Aug, Drive to Timure 12 km and cross boarder and well welcome received from Tibet guide and driver. Drive to Kerung about 24 km.
3rd Aug, Driver 20 Km and walk an hour to Dakar Tesue, Milarepa cave and return back to Kerung and visit Phakpa Lakhang.
4th Aug, Drive to Saga crossing 5200 m high pass almost 200 Km.
5th Aug, Drive to Chui Gompa, Manasarovar about 500 km.
6th Aug, visit Chui Gompa, Guru rimporche cave and drive to Zhanda about 285 km.
7th Aug, Zhanda (Toling) - Guge - Tsaprang (3500m) Drive 20 Km to Tsaprang and visit the ruin of Gugekingdom. Climb and visit few monastery about an hour to the top of Gugekingdom return back to Toling and visit famous monastery at Toling.
8th Aug,Travel to Darchen (4600m) After breakfast drive to Darchen via Thirtha puri. Had a good rest and prepare for the Kailash Kora.
9th Aug : Darchen to Deraphuk (4900 m) Early in the morning, start walking about 18 kilometers easy walking to Derapuk. North Face of Kailash.
10th Aug : Diraphuk Crossing Dolma La Pass (5623m) and overnight at Juthulphuk (4760 m) Second day of Kailash Parikrama is a tough day of the Yatra. Start early in the morning. Tough uphill till Dolma La pass and immediately serious downhill till basic tea house at bottom of hill. then easy walking to Juthulpuk..
11th Aug: Trek to Darchen and Drive to Saga: Final day of Kailash parikrama. It is easy walking about 2 hours till 10 km to Darchen and drive back to Saga 450 Km via same way.
12th Aug: Saga to Sigatse 440 km. Drive via Lhatse visit Sakya Monastery and overnight at Sigatse.
13th Aug: Sigatse to Gyangtse, Morning visit Tashi Lumpo Monastery, Syalu Monastery and drive to Gyangtse. Visit Pekhor Choede, Dogoda Monastery at Gyangtse.
14th Aug Gyangtse to Tshedang. Early morning drive via Yamdruk lake and visit Mindroling Monastery then to Tshedang. Visit of Yambu Lhakang, Trandruk Monastery
15th Aug, Tshedang to Samye, Early morning drive to Samye. Visit Chimpo Ri (Guru Rinporche Cave) and Samye monastery.
16th Aug, Samye to Lhasa, After breakfast drive to Norbulinka to see the last day of Shoten festival. Visit of Norbulinka and had picnick and watched the Maneka (Tibetan Opera). Check in Hotel Dhood Gu and after lunch visit Jokhang.
17th Aug: Lhasa, Visit Potala, Phulabuk, and Ramocho monastery with Agula.
18th: Lhasa, Visit of Drepung and Sera and evening went to see the Princess Wenchen, Golden Bridge, Tibetan live Opera.
19th Aug: Lhasa, Visit of Ganden and Drak Yarpa
20th Aug: Lhasa, Free day and Evening farewell dinner with cultural program
21st Aug: Lhasa Fly back to Kathmandu
Drak Yerpa Donkeys
Donkeys at Drak Yerpa Monestary in Tibet
Mountain view above Drak Yerpa meditation caves in Tibet
2012-09-03
Kora around the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa
Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims circumnavigating the Jokhang in Lhasa, one man prostrating himself in order to gain additional merit
BBtv World: Ancient hermit monk caves of Tibet
Online: In our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, we bring you first-person glimpses of life, culture, and human expression from around the planet.
Today, we visit the honeycombed, limestone caves at Drak Yerpa, an ancient religious and historic site near Lhasa, Tibet.
Tibetan Buddhists consider Drak Yerpa (pronounced sort of like tra-YER-ba) with its more than eighty meditation caves and temples, to be the life tree of Lhasa. In 1959, the Chinese military demolished most of the temples here. Signs of that destruction are etched into walls pockmarked with bullet holes. The few artifacts that saved from that destruction have been hidden for half a century, only recently reemerging for worshippers.
Songsten Gampo, the founder of the Tibetan empire, is believed to have meditated in the very cave we're walking through in this footage -- way back in the 7th century. A hundred years later, the dark assassin-monk Lhalungpa Pelgi Dorje hid here after killing Tibet's non-Buddhist king with a bow and arrow (he shot the guy in the eye, then he sped off on a horse covered in black soot). The assassin's black hat was enshrined in a cave here until 1959, when the communist army came in to ransack the site. And Padmasambhava, the holy figure considered the second Buddha meditated and practiced tantric yoga with his yogini consort here. She is Yeshe Tsogyal, and devotees refer to her as the bliss queen.
The pilgrims who walk praying through these ruins are ethnic Tibetans: citydwellers, tribal nomads, traditional monks and nuns. They come to worship at shrines of historical figures and deities, and they pay homage with donations that help cover upkeep of the shrines and to feed the monks who tend to them.
Traditional religious practice is evident here, but ethnic Tibetans and human rights advocates argue that true religious freedom does not exist in Tibet. Displaying a picture of the Dalai Lama, for instance, is a crime that brings harsh penalties. Tibetans who revere him as a spiritual leader don't hear news of him on state-run media, unless it's portraying him as a sort of terrorist.
When we went to these shrines at Drak Yerpa and others throughout Tibet, we were clearly foreigners, and had just come from the part of India where the Dalai Lama lives in exile. Monks would often pull us aside into quieter corners and ask in hushed voice, Dalai Lama, have you seen him?, motioning to their eyes, asking for word. -- Xeni Jardin
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Inside Shelkar Gompa in Tibet
For those with an interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Dra Yerpa hermitage, about 16km northeast of Lhasa, is one of the holiest cave retreat. Among the many ascetics who have sojourned here are Guru Rinpoche and Atisha, the Bengali Buddhist who spent 12 years proselytizing in Tibet. King Songtsen Gampo also meditated in a cave, after his Tibetan wife established the first of Yerpa’s chapels. The peaceful site offers lovely views and is a great day trip from Lhasa.
At one time the hill at the base of the cave-dotted cliffs was home to Yerpa Drubde Monastery, the summer residence of Lhasa’s Gyuto College at the Ramoche Monastery. The monastery was destroyed in 1959. Monks have begun to return to Yerpa but numbers are strictly controlled by the government, which carries out regular patriotic study sessions.
From the car park, take the left branch of the stairway to visit the caves in clockwise fashion. The 1st caves are the Rigsum Gompo Cave and the Temjl Drubpuk, the cace where Stisha meditated. Look for the stone footprints of Yeshe Tsogyel in the former and the 5th Dalai Lama in the latter. At one nearby cave pilgrims squeeze through a hole in the rock wall; at another they take a sip of holy water.
The yellow Jamkhang has an impressive 2-storey statue of Jampa flanked by Chana Dorje to the left and Namse and Tamdrin to the right. Other statues are of Atisha flanked by the 5th Dalai Lama and Tsongkhapa. The upper cave is the Drubthubpuk, recognizable by its black yak-hair curtain. Continuing east along the ridge a detour leads up to a chorten that offers fine views of the valley.
Climb to the Chogyal-puk, the Cave of Songtsen Gampo. The interior chapel has a central thousand-armed Chenresig statue known as Chaktong Chentong. Pilgrims circle the central rock pillar continually. A small cave and statue of Songtsen Gampo are in the righthand corner.
Source: TibetVista
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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2012-09-03
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For those with an interest in Tibetan Buddhism, Dra Yerpa hermitage, about 16km northeast of Lhasa, is one of the holiest cave retreat. Among the many ascetics who have sojourned here are Guru Rinpoche and Atisha, the Bengali Buddhist who spent 12 years proselytizing in Tibet. King Songtsen Gampo also meditated in a cave, after his Tibetan wife established the first of Yerpa’s chapels. The peaceful site offers lovely views and is a great day trip from Lhasa.
At one time the hill at the base of the cave-dotted cliffs was home to Yerpa Drubde Monastery, the summer residence of Lhasa’s Gyuto College at the Ramoche Monastery. The monastery was destroyed in 1959. Monks have begun to return to Yerpa but numbers are strictly controlled by the government, which carries out regular patriotic study sessions.
From the car park, take the left branch of the stairway to visit the caves in clockwise fashion. The 1st caves are the Rigsum Gompo Cave and the Temjl Drubpuk, the cace where Stisha meditated. Look for the stone footprints of Yeshe Tsogyel in the former and the 5th Dalai Lama in the latter. At one nearby cave pilgrims squeeze through a hole in the rock wall; at another they take a sip of holy water.
The yellow Jamkhang has an impressive 2-storey statue of Jampa flanked by Chana Dorje to the left and Namse and Tamdrin to the right. Other statues are of Atisha flanked by the 5th Dalai Lama and Tsongkhapa. The upper cave is the Drubthubpuk, recognizable by its black yak-hair curtain. Continuing east along the ridge a detour leads up to a chorten that offers fine views of the valley.
Climb to the Chogyal-puk, the Cave of Songtsen Gampo. The interior chapel has a central thousand-armed Chenresig statue known as Chaktong Chentong. Pilgrims circle the central rock pillar continually. A small cave and statue of Songtsen Gampo are in the righthand corner.
Source: TibetVista
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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