Zangla Monastery

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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox Tibetan Buddhist monastery
|name =Zangla Fort
|image = Kőrösi Csoma Sándor.jpg
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|caption = [[Sándor Kőrösi Csoma]] who studied the Tibetan language at the monastery in 1823-4
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|map_caption = Location within India

|country = India
|location=Zangla, [[Zanskar]], [[Kargil district]], [[Ladakh]], [[India]]
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|lineage=9th C.E. Tibetan Anti-Buddhist King Lang Dharma.
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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.{{Tibetan Buddhism}}
'''Tsazar Monastery''' is a [[Buddhism|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.<ref>{{citation|author=Lussier, Mark|url=http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/buddhism/lussier/lussier.html|title=Enlightenment East and West:An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism|publisher=[[Arizona State University]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh}}

[[Category:Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh]]
[[Category:Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and temples in India]]

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Zangla

2021-10-09T10:56:24Z

2409:4054:11A:AE3:0:0:47:F8B1: I have changed the name of Zangla Monastery to Zangla Fort

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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| name = Zangla
| native_name = Sangla
| native_name_lang = Ladakhi
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Ladakh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of Ladakh|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kargil district|Kargil]]
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'''Zangla''' is a village in [[Zanskar]] [[tehsil]] of [[Kargil district]], in the Indian union territory of [[Ladakh]]. It is located 32 km from [[Padum]], the capital of Zanskar and presently the headquarter of Zanskar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lehladakhindia.com/zangla/|title=Zangla {{!}} Things to do in Zangla & Travel Guide|website=www.lehladakhindia.com|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref> The town is the nodal point on the popular Padum-Strongdey-Zangla-Karsha-Padum round trip. An old ruin Fort, Known as [[Zangla Monastery|Zangla Fort]] is located on a hilltop right side to the village at a distance of one km belief of 11th century.

The Buddhist ruin Fort contains some impressive paintings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lehladakhindia.com/zangla/|title=Zangla {{!}} Things to do in Zangla & Travel Guide|website=www.lehladakhindia.com|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>

==Geography==
Zangla is located at {{coord|33.67|N|76.98|E|}}<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/12/Zangla.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc – Zangla]</ref> on the banks of [[Zanskar River]], and has an average elevation of 3,931 metres (12,897 feet).

==Demographics==
According to the [[2011 census of India]], Zangla had 182 households.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ourhero.in/villages/zangla-1080|title=Zangla Population|work=Our Hero|access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref> The literacy rate of Zangla village is 59.81%. In Zangla, Male literacy stands at 75.06% while the female literacy rate was 45.27%.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Demographics (2011 Census)
! !! Total !! Male !! Female
|-
| Population || 954 || 471 || 483
|-
| Children aged below 6 years || 108 || 58 || 50
|-
| [[Scheduled caste]] || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| [[Scheduled tribe]] || 953 || 470 || 483
|-
| Literacy || 59.81% || 75.06% || 45.27%
|-
| Workers (all) || 443 || 227 || 216
|-
| Main workers (all) || 231 || – || –
|-
| Marginal workers (total) || 212 || 99 || 113
|}

==Transport==
===Road===
Zangla is connected by road to other places in Ladakh and India by the [[National Highway 301 (India)|NH 301]].

===Rail===
The nearest railway stations to Zangla are [[Sopore railway station]] and [[Srinagar railway station]] located at a distance of 480 kilometres and 487 kilometres. The nearest major railway stations are [[Jammu Tawi railway station]] and [[Udhampur railway station]], located 725 and 658 kilometres from Zangla.

===Air===
The nearest airport is located in [[Kargil Airport|Kargil]] at a distance of 269 kilometres but it is currently non-operational. The next nearest major airport is [[Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport|Leh Airport]] located at a distance of 476 kilometres.

==See also==
*[[Ladakh]]
*[[Kargil]]
*[[Zanskar]]

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in Zanskar tehsil]]

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