PADUM PHUG

(Zanskar tehsil - IN)
33.466700,76.883300
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 31/05/2016

A space separated by partition walls into troglodyte retreat cells beneath a gravitationally dislocated boulder of at least the size of a two-storied Ladakhi house, is situated »near« (a little higher up the river, on the slope of the ridge towards the river) the rock art site (note 1) below the town of Padum / Spadum (note 2) in the Zanskar (Zaskar, Zangskar) River valley. FRANCKE (1907a edited 1998: 23) noticed »… caves underneath the boulder, which form several cells separated from each other by walls. These are evidently the last remnants of an ancient Buddhist monastery. But the cells are filled with earth almost to the ceiling, and it would be a grand thing if at some time they could be excavated. That this monastery was once larger is proved by two niches for beams above it.«

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 31/05/2016

NOTE 1: The Tibetan Buddhist rock art site (deep relief, low relief) Gyalwa-rigs-nga (place of the five gods) is a 15 m high boulder. which HIRSCHBERG (1987: 220) places below Padum (Padam, Spadum) and about a kilometer north of the large suspension bridge across the Lungnak. NOTE 2: »Spadum« (FRANCKE 1907a) or »Padum« (LONELY PLANET, India 2003: 291, 318-319) is indicated as »Padam« near N33°28': E076°53' (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) on AMS sheet NI43-12 (U502 series, 1963 edition) and as »Padum« in the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 3 E4) in Kargil district and at a travelling distance of 240 km along the road from the town of Kargil (N34°34': E076°06').

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Cavités proche

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4.8NIMA OZER PHUG, Sani, Seni Gompa
20.0TANTHAK PHUG
23.0NAROPA, Dzongkhul (Cave of)
23.0DZONG KONGMA, Dzongkhul
27.3SHADE / SHADI (Caves near)
36.9PHUGTAL CAVE
44.6TILATSUMDO
70.8KARAKORUM CAVE (de TERRA 1931)
81.4THAKOOR DWARA (Caves near)