"Phyang gompa" Top 5 Page for this destination Ladakh Range Off The Beaten Path Tip by call_me_rhia

Phyang gompa is a lovely gompa - not particularly for the monastery itself, but for its spectacular surroundings - green and lush - fileds of I don't know which cereal or vegetable. The other thing that captivated me was the mumbling/chanting I heard from a building: I went there to see what was going on, and found a lovely class of novices studying English. Then I looked at the blackboard - spotted some spelling mistakes, and the teacher of me couldn't resist: I grabbed one novice, took him to the blackboard, pointed out the mistakes and asked them to correct them. At that moment the monk/english teacher arrived.. and burst out laughing!