[2025 Shangri-La Attraction] Travel Guide for Shangri-La Scripture Printing Lamasery (Updated Mar)

It's very easy to get to the Songzanlin Monestary, you can take bus number 3 across the street of North Gate and stop at 松赞林寺. Ticket bus cost 2 RMB (cash/wechat scan) The ticket for the Monestary will cost you 75 RMB (with local tour guide +15 RMB (non English). I spent about 2h there and take some cute pictures. #MyTripVlog #wintergetaway#bucketlistreboot

We passed a small temple on the road and decided to take a look. It turned out to be a scripture printing house, and the piles of printing plates inside were spectacular. 🏔Scenery This was the first time I had seen so many printing plates piled up like a mountain. They were all Sanskrit scriptures, and there were also some Buddha statues. It's not a famous attraction, so it's very quiet. Not far behind the temple is a mountain with a coniferous forest, which is very beautiful. 👍Recommended You can visit the printing plates on the first floor. The second floor has some thangka displays and sales (not very interesting). The first floor is more worth seeing. 🎟Tickets Free

The Printing House is one of the most intact traditional Tibetan buildings in Shangri-La County, located in the center of the county. It was first built in the Ming Dynasty and was once famous. It was the only general Buddhist scripture collection place in Lijiang Prefecture at that time. It also received important figures such as Songtsen Gampo and Xia Samuzha. The Printing House has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and has preserved a large number of ancient Buddhist scriptures and cultural relics🎁. Despite the passage of time, the traditional printing and management model of the Printing House has been well preserved🎭. Nothing here has changed much, except for the dim Sutra Library and the ancient Sutra printing plate. With firm belief, no matter how many years pass, the Printing House will pass on this traditional printing method. In the dim scripture room, the light coming in from the window seems to have traveled through a time tunnel. Only the shiny printing plates have left traces of time. Immersed in the aroma of ghee and ink, hundreds of millions of Tibetan letters whisper on the dark bookshelves, as if waiting for the next cycle of printing and cleaning. 🚗It is half an hour's drive from Songtsen 🛕The gate is not locked, but the main printing house needs to ask the monks to open the door 🤍When you are not at peace, you will like this place especially