TANTHAK PHUG

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A unspecified meditation cave, complete with hermit, reports HIRSCHBERG (1987: 232) from a rock face near Tanthak, a small summer settlement (5 houses and a lakhang / Tibetan Buddhist prayer room) situated west of –>Shade / Shadi (note 1), a village (15 houses) about 20 km in a direct line north-east from Char (N33°15': E077°08') and on the route (four days on foot or 16 km in a direct line) from Phuktal / Phugtal Gompa (N33°16': E077°11' ) upstream west along the Shingri Chu via –>Tanthak (note 2) and Stongde Pass (note 3) to the village of Stongde (note 4) in the valley of the Zanskar (Zaskar, Zangskar) River.A unspecified meditation cave, complete with hermit, reports HIRSCHBERG (1987: 232) from a rock face near Tanthak, a small summer settlement (5 houses and a lakhang / Tibetan Buddhist prayer room) situated west of –>Shade / Shadi (note 1), a village (15 houses) about 20 km in a direct line north-east from Char (N33°15': E077°08') and on the route (four days on foot or 16 km in a direct line) from Phuktal / Phugtal Gompa (N33°16': E077°11' ) upstream west along the Shingri Chu via –>Tanthak (note 2) and Stongde Pass (note 3) to the village of Stongde (note 4) in the valley of the Zanskar (Zaskar, Zangskar) River.