Samding Monastery

Samding Monastery () "The Temple of Soaring Meditation" is a gompa built on a hill on a peninsula jutting into Yamdrok Lake about east of Nangkatse. It is located southwest of Lhasa, at an altitude of , on a barren hill about above the lake at the neck of a narrow peninsula jutting out into the water. It is associated with the Bodong and Shangpa Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Samding is the seat of Dorje Pakmo, the consort of the wrathful deity Heruka, who was the highest female incarnat…