Shanti Stupa

This is an elegant and glimmering monuments on the landscape of Ladakh. This stupa was built by the Buddhist of Ladakh as well as the Japanese Buddhist themselves. The intial idea was to built a peace Pagoda with a temple in an attempt to reinvigorate the faith and the values and the teachings of Buddhism in the true earnest but the peace Stupa was constructed in its place. The pagoda is architecture built in compliance with that of a Pagoda. The stupa is a two level storied building.



The central attraction the stupa is a big Golden idol of Buddha which sits on a Dharamachakra. The Second level of the Pagoda has paintings pertaining to the life and times of the Lord Buddha and Scenes of the Lord Buddha in meditation defeating the  powers of the devil.  The Stupa was opened for Public by his holiness the Dalai Lama. The Stupa certainly asserts its title as peaceful and serene conducive for prayer and meditation.