Paro Taktsang (Tiger's Nest)

Top Highlights

• Top Highlights:

  • Monastery Complex: Series of buildings clinging to the cliffside.
  • Hiking Trail: Scenic trek to reach the monastery.
  • Historical Significance: Site where Guru Rinpoche meditated.

  Paro Taktsang (Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་, also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest),^[1] is a sacred Vajrayana Himalayan Buddhist site located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan. A later monastery complex was built in 1692 by 4th Druk Desi Tenzin Rabgey around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave, where Guru Padmasambhava meditated and practiced with students including Yeshe Tsogyal before departing the kingdom of Tibet in the early 9th century. It is one of thirteen Tiger's Nest caves in historical Tibet in which Padmasambhava practiced and taught Vajrayana.