Web links Church / Cathedral / Monastery Hemis Monastery
koshkha(46)
Northampton, United Kingdom80%
[koshkha, 27/12/2006] This link is to the Unesco world heritage sites website and will take readers to the listing for Hemis Gompa - explaining why this is considered to be worthy of inclusion on Unesco's 'tentative' list as a site of important historical and cultural importance.
koshkha(46)
Northampton, United Kingdom90%
[koshkha, 27/12/2006] The link takes readers to an account of the Hemis Festival which takes place each summer at Hemis Monastery. The writer went to the festival in 2004 and reports on the history of the festival and what happens in modern times during the event.