Visit the world's highest Tantric Buddhist monastery.

Tengboche Monastery is located in Eastern Nepal, near the Everest trekking route. It is a Tantric Buddhist monastery that many visitors visit to pray before starting their journey to conquer Everest Base Camp. Buddhism entered the Khumbu Valley, where Tengboche Monastery is located, about 350 years ago. Ancient Tibetan manuscripts speak of a lama named Sangwa Dorje, who possessed great clairvoyance and spiritual knowledge. He predicted the appearance of a monastery near Tengboche Village – where he flew into a deep meditative state and left an imprint on a rock (you can see the imprint at the temple entrance). The spiritual master Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, the fifth reincarnation of Sangwa Dorje, founded the monastery in 1916. The main building of Tengboche Monastery is the Dohang – a two-story ceremonial hall with a giant statue of Buddha Shakyamuni. Next are the statues of Manjushri (the Bodhisattva of wisdom) and Maitreya (the Bodhisattva who will be reborn among humans in the future and become a Buddha, and whose appearance will mark the beginning of the golden age). Another important relic of the monastery is the handwritten texts of Kanjur, the teachings of the Buddha, translated into classical Tibetan.