{"id":1595,"date":"2015-02-19T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/?page_id=1595"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:38:59","slug":"spituk-monastery-in-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/spituk-monastery-in-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"SPITUK MONASTERY- LADAKH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spituk Monastery, better known as Spituk Gompa or Pethup Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery in Leh district, just 8 km away from the town of Leh. Founded by Od-de, it dates back to the 11th Century. Initially, the monastery was founded as Red Hat Moanstic institution but later it was taken over by the Gelugpa (Yellow Hat) order in 15th century. The monastery is comprised of 100 monks and a giant statue of Hindu deity Kali, which is unveiled during the annual Spituk festival.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6752\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk.jpg\" alt=\"Spituk\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spituk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6753\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk-premises.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk-premises.jpg\" alt=\"Spituk Premises\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spituk Premises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6754\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spituk-2.jpg\" alt=\"Spituk\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spituk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Monasterys in Ladakh<\/h2>\n<div class=\"list1\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/alchi-gompa-in-ladakh\/\">Alchi Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/thiksey-gompa-in-ladakh\/\">Thiksey Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/bardan-monastery-in-ladakh\/\">Bardan Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/chemrey-gompa-in-ladakh\/\">Chemrey Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/diskit-hundur-gompa-in-ladakh\/\">Diskit Hundur Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/hemis-monastery-in-ladakh\/ \">Hemis Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/karsha-monastery-in-padum-valley\/\">Karsha Monastery &#8211; Padum Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/lamayuru-monastery-in-ladakh\/\">Lamayuru Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/likir-monastery-in-ladakh\/\">Likir Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/phyang-monastery-in-ladakh\/\">Phyang Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/shey-gompa-in-ladakh\/\">Shey Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/stongdey-monastery-in-zanskar\/ \">Stongdey Monastery &#8211; Zanskar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/stakna-gompa-in-ladakh\/ \">Stakna Gompa &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\" http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/attractions\/monasteries\/rizong-monastery-in-ladakh\/\">Rizong Monastery &#8211; Ladakh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spituk Monastery, better known as Spituk Gompa or Pethup Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery in Leh district, just 8 km away from the town of Leh. Founded by Od-de, it dates back to the 11th Century. Initially, the monastery was founded as Red Hat Moanstic institution but later it was taken over by the Gelugpa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-page-right-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monasteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}