Mystic Legendary "Tigerโ€™s Nest" Taktsang Monastery in Bhutan ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡น

As per legend, Guru Padmasambhava, also known as Guru Rinpoche, meditated in a cave here for three years, three months, three weeks, three days, and three hours in the 8th century. It is believed that Guru Rinpoche flew to this location on the back of a tigress, thus earning the name Tiger's Nest.
There are a total of around 1000 steps that you cover overall when hiking the Tiger's Nest Bhutan. These include steps during the trek. There are also a lot of steps inside the Tiger's Nest Monastery. So, those who won't be entering the Tiger's nest monastery will have to deal with less number of steps overall.
In addition to 5 km trekking, the stiff climbing from the base to the top of the mountain before reaching the 1,000 steps beginning to go down the valley! ๐Ÿ˜œ
Paro Taktsang, also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest, is a sacred Vajrayana Himalayan Buddhist site located on the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan. It is one of thirteen Tiger's Nest caves in historical Tibet in which Padmasambhava practiced and taught Vajrayana.
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. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan, which was then part of Tibet, and is the tutelary deity of the country. Today, Paro Taktsang is the best known of the thirteen taktsang or "tiger lair" caves in which he and his students meditated.
The shrine dedicated to Padmasambhava, also known as Gu-ru mTshan-brgyad Lhakhang or "the Shrine of the Guru with Eight Names", refers to Padmasambhava's Eight Manifestations and is an elegant structure built around the cave in 1692 by Gyalse Tenzin Rabgye. It has become the cultural icon of Bhutan. A popular festival, known as the Tsechu, held in honor of Padmasambhava, is celebrated in the Paro Valley sometime during March or April.
According to the Namthar of the Lhakhang, it is believed that Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) flew to this location from Singye Dzong on the back of a tigress This place was consecrated to tame the Tiger demon.
An alternative legend holds that a former wife of an emperor willingly became a disciple of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambahva) in Tibet. She transformed herself into a tigress and carried the Guru on her back from Tibet to the present location of the Taktsang in Bhutan. In one of the caves here, the Guru then performed meditation and emerged in eight incarnated forms (manifestations), and the place became holy. Subsequently, the place came to be known as the โ€œTiger's Nestโ€.
The popular legend of the Taktsang monastery is further embellished with the story of Tenzin Rabgye, who built the temple here in 1692. It has been mentioned by authors that the 8th century guru Padmasmabhava had reincarnated again in the form of Tenzin Rabgye. The corroborative proofs mooted are: that Tenzin Rabgye was seen (by his friends) concurrently inside and outside his cave; even a small quantity of food was adequate to feed all visitors; no one was injured during worship (in spite of the approach track to the monastery being dangerous and slippery); and the people of the Paro valley saw in the sky various animal forms and religious symbols including a shower of flowers that appeared and also vanished in the air without touching the earth.
๋ถ€ํƒ„์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ถˆ๊ต์„ฑ์ง€, ๊น์•„์„ธ์šด๋“ฏํ•œ ์ ˆ๋ฒฝ์œ„์˜ ํƒ์ƒ์ˆ˜๋„์› (ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด์˜ ๋‘ฅ์ง€๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š”) ํŠธ๋ž™ํ‚น์„ ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ†ต ์™•๋ณต 6์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋“ค ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €๋Š” 8์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์™„์ „ ๋…น์ดˆ๊ฐ€๋˜์„œ ํ•˜์‚ฐํ•˜์˜€๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์‚ฐํ›„, ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ•ด์ค€ Bhutanese Hot stone herbal mineral bath Farmhouse Spa ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋ชธ์„ ํ’€๊ณ  ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ˜ธํ…”๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€ ๊ณจ์•„๋–จ์–ด์ ”์–ด์š”! ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹
๋„คํŒ”์—์„œ ์•ˆ๋‚˜ํ”„๋ฃจ๋‚˜์™€ ์—๋ฒ ๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค์บ ํ”„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋…€์˜จ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋„์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ ์‚ฐ๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด๋“ค ํž˜๋“ค์–ด ํ•œ๋‹คํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜์‚ฌํ•œํ…Œ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›์•„์˜จ ๊ณ ์‚ฐ๋ณ‘์•ฝ์„ ์‚ฐ์— ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ธฐ์ „์— ํ•œ์•Œ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ๋„ ์ผ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ๋ณด์™€๋Š” ํ‹€๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•œ ๋‚ ์”จ์—ฌ์„œ ๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ฅธ ์‚ฐ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์— ์˜ค๋ฅธํ›„ 700 ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ณก์˜ ๊ณ„๋‹จ์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ˆ˜๋„์› ์ ˆ๋ฒฝ ๊ณ„๋‹จ์„ ๋ฌด์‚ฌ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅผ์ˆ˜์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํƒ์ƒ์ˆ˜๋„์›์—๋Š” 9๊ฐœ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ฐฐ์ด์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ 7๊ฐœ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ฐฐ๋งŒ ๋Œ€์ค‘๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  2๊ฐœ๋Š” ์˜ค์ง ์™•์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์†๋‹˜๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๋„ค์š”.
์•„์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ๋„, ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ ์ดฌ์˜์ด ๊ธˆ์ง€๋˜์–ด์žˆ์–ด์‚ฌ์ฐฐ์•ˆ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ์„ค๋ช…์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ~~
"ํƒ์ƒ์‚ฌ์›(tigerโ€™s nest)์€ ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด๊ตด์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ •ํ™•ํžˆ๋Š” ํƒ์ƒํŒ”์ˆ˜๋„์›(taktsang palphug monastery). ํ•ด๋ฐœ 3,120๋ฏธํ„ฐ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์ด๊ณณ์€ 8์„ธ๊ธฐ ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ 2๋ฒˆ์งธ ์™”์„ ๋•Œ ์ด๊ณณ ํƒ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์™”๋‹ค. ํ›ˆ์„ธ์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์„ค๋ฒ•์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ช…์ƒ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ, ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ์ผ„ํŒŒ์ข…(khenpajong)์—์„œ ์•…๋งˆํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์น˜๊ณ , ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•œ ์ œ์ž(์˜ˆ์„ธ์ดˆ๊ณŒ=ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”์˜ ๋ถ€์ธ)์˜ ๋“ฑ์— ์šฉ๋งน์Šค๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•ด ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ€๊ณ  ์ด๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์™”๋‹คํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜ธ๋ž‘์ด ๊ตด์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ 3๋…„ 3๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ๋ช…์ƒ์„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ  8๋Œ€ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹ ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ด๊ณณ์„ ์„ฑ์ง€๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„ ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๋Š” ๋ถ€ํƒ„์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ๊ฐ•์Šน ๋ถˆ๊ต ์ค‘ ๋‹๋งˆํŒŒ์˜ ์‹œ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.
ํƒ์ƒ ์‚ฌ์›์—๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ์ด๊ฐ™์€ ํ–‰์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ถ€ํƒ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์ด๋ฉฐ ์„ฑ์ธ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์ž๋“ค์ด ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป๋Š” ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์•™๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
ํŒŒ๋“œ๋งˆ์‚ผ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋™๊ตด์—์„œ 4๊ฐœ์›”๋™์•ˆ ์ œ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ๊ฐ•์Šน์„ ๋น„๋ฐ€์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•ด์ฃผ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ€๊ต๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นจ์„ ๋น„๋ฐ€์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ธ์—ฐ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ œ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ‹ฐ๋ฒ ํŠธ ์‚ฌ์ž์˜์„œ ๋‹ค. 1692๋…„ 4๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ข…๊ต์ง€๋„์ž ๋‘‘๋ฐ์”จํ…์ง„๋ž๊ณ„(tenzin rabgye)๊ฐ€ ํŒŒ๋กœ ์ถ•์ œ์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์›์„ ์„ธ์› ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์„ค๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋’ค ์Šน๋ ค์ด์ž ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์˜€๋˜ ํŽœ๋กญ๋“œ๋ฝํŒŒ ๊ฑ‹์†Œ(1646~1719๋…„)๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„ํšํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ๋‹น ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ๋ถ€์†๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด์ค‘์— ํฌ๋ถ€ ๋ผ์บ‰์—๋Š” ๋‹น์‹œ ์•…๋งˆ์„ ๋ฌด์ฐŒ๋ฅด๋˜ ๊ธˆ๊ฐ•์ €๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์กด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ณธ๋‹น ์œ„์—๋Š” ์šฐ๊ฒ ์ฒด๋ชจ ๋ผ์บ‰์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์œ„๋กœ๋Š” ์—ฐํ™”์ƒ ๋ณด์‚ด์ด ์ฒœ์ƒ์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋„๋ฆฌ์ฒœ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅํฌํŽ ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ์บ‰์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
1951๋…„ ํ™”์žฌ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์†์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, 1998๋…„ ๋Œ€ํ™”์žฌ๋กœ ๋ณธ๋‹น์ด ์†Œ์‹ค๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. 2000๋…„์— ๋ณต์›๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณฐํŒŒ์ธ ์ด์‚ฌ์›์€ 1998๋…„ ํ™”์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋„ ์™ธ๋ถ€๋งŒ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ๋‹ค."

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