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Likir Monastery Tour

Known as "water spirits", the KLUKKHYIL Gompa was built in 14th Century and it is the first known gompa to have been built by Tibetan monks. The gompa belongs to the Gelupa Order and houses 150 monks. The Gompa has a number of enormous clay statues of the Buddha in different forms.& was the first royal monastery to be established in Ladakh under direct Tibetan influence.