Petseling Monastery

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Petseling Monastery is a gompa in the dzong style of Bhutan built near Jakar, Bumthang District in 1769 with support from the Penlop of Trongsa and the dzongpen of Jakar. ()

Coordinates: 27°34'50"N, 90°46'30"E

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Petseling Monastery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tamzhing Monastery, Jambey Lhakhang, Jakar Dzong, Könchogsum Lhakhang.

2.3 miW
Monastery
Tamzhing Monastery
59 min walk • Tamzhing Lhündrup Monastery in Bumthang District in central Bhutan is a Nyingma gompa in Bhutan. Its temple and monastery are remarkable for their direct connection to the Bhutanese tertön and saint, Pema Lingpa and his tulkus.
2.5 miW
Monastery
Jambey Lhakhang, Jakar
65 min walk • The Jampa Temple or Temple of Maitreya is located in Bumthang in Bhutan, and is said to be one of the 108 temples built by Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in 659 CE on a single day, to pin down an ogress to earth forever.
2.9 miSW
Town, Buddhist architecture
Jakar Dzong, Jakar
75 min walk • Jakar Dzong or Jakar Yugyal Dzong is the dzong or fortress of the Bumthang District in central Bhutan. It is located on a ridge above Jakar town in the Chamkhar valley of Bumthang. It is built on the site of an earlier temple established by the Ralung hierarch Yongzin Ngagi Wangchuk when he came to Bhutan.
2.2 miW
Monastery
Könchogsum Lhakhang
58 min walk • Könchogsum Lhakhang, also known as Tsilung, is a Buddhist monastery in central Bhutan.
2.6 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Bumthang Valley, Jakar
67 min walk • Bumthang Valley is the main inhabited valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan.
5.2 miNW
Monastery
Kurjey Lhakhang
134 min walk • Kurjey Lhakang,སྐུ་རྗེས་ ཡང་ན་ གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གི་ ཞབས་རྗེས་ also known as the Kurjey Monastery, is located in the Bumthang valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. This is the final resting place of the remains of the first three Kings of Bhutan.
3.9 miSW
Monastery
Lamay Monastery, Jakar
100 min walk • Lamay Monastery or Lamay Gonpa is a Buddhist monastery in Bumthang, Bhutan. It is located four kilometers above the Jakar Dzong and was built by the Trongsa Penlop, Sonam Drugel, the great-grandfather of King Ugyen Wangchuck in the 19th century.
3.7 miE
Monastery
Tang Rimochen Lhakhang
95 min walk • Ta Rimochan or Ti Rimochen is a Buddhist monastery in Bhutan belonging to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located near the village of Misethang in the Tang Valley east of Jakar. A stupa gate marks the road leading to it.
2.9 miSE
Monastery
Kunzangdrak Monastery
75 min walk • Kunzangdrak is a Buddhist sacred site in the Tang Valley of central Bhutan. It lies at an altitude of 3,350 metres in the hollow of a cliff. Guru Rinpoche and his disciple Namkhai Nyingpo are said to have meditated here at the end of the 8th century. The current temple, however, was established in 1488 by Pema Lingpa.
4.8 miN
Monastery
Ngang Lhakhang
123 min walk • Ngang Lhakhang is a Buddhist monastery in the Choekhor Valley of central Bhutan. It is located not for from Draphe Dzong, which was the residence of the Choekhor Penlop who was ruling the valley before the Drukpa conquest in the 17th century. Also known as the "Swan temple", Ngang lies on the right side of the valley.