Taktsang

Taktsang Lhamo lies in a high mountain valley at the headwaters of the Bailong River. Two Gelug monasteries face one another across the river: Sertri on the northern bank and Kirti on the southern bank. The northern monastery, also known as Dekhatsang Lhamo Sertri, was founded in 1748. Its Tibetan name and the Chinese forms of that name have been rendered in several ways, but both houses belong to the religious landscape of the Amdo borderlands.