Zangla Monastery

Current day Zangla Village has no monastery, only a nunnery. Zangla Palace is sometimes called Zangla Monastery due to a mistake made first probably by Tivadar Duka, biographer of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and later by Ervin Baktay, an Indologist who visited Zangla in 1928 to identify the locations related to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and suffering from malaria fever, described Zangla Palace - probably due to the Shrine and some monks living there - as a Monastery.

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Zangla Monastery
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma who studied the Tibetan language at the monastery in 1823-4
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Gelug
Location
Location	Tsa-zar, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, India
Country	India
Location within India Show map of Ladakh Zangla Monastery (India) Show map of India
Geographic coordinates	33°40′12″N 76°58′48″E

Tsazar Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the village of Tsa-zar, 6 kilometres from Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, northern India, formerly part of the Zangla Kingdom.

Tsazar Monastery is home to a few number of lamas and it has some notable wall paintings.

The Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma edited the first Tibetan-English dictionary while living at Zangla Palace in 1823. The dictionary was published in 1824.[1]