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Zangla is a town in Zanskar tehsil of Kargil district, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located 35 km from Padum. The town is the nodal point on the popular Padum-Strongdey-Zangla-Karsha-Padum round trip. Zangla Monastery is located in the area.

Zangla Monastery

Zangla Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in the village of Tsa-zar near Zangla, Zanskar, Kargil district, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, northern India.

Zangla Monastery is home to around 150 lamas and is located near a ruined hilltop castle, and an old nunnery. It has some exquisite wall paintings. Zangla is the central point on the Padum-Stongdey-Zangla-Karsha-Padum trip, covering most of the cultural sites of Zanskar including the Zangla monastery.

The great Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma made the first English-Tibetian Dictionary while living at Zangla Monastery in 1823. The dictionary was published a year later in 1824.

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		Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangla_Monastery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangla