A Journey to Takela

 We were sitting over dinner. My senior, DTs, is with us as he did not get home. He was transferred from Dagana to Mongar. Mongar Dzongkhag, particularly Mongar town has a housing issue as most of the transfer people are suffering searching for a house.

As tomorrow is a weekend, I talked to him about whether we could visit Takela or Korila Wadipa Ney. We could not decide but sometimes later, we decided to go to Takela, the largest Guru Pedma Sambhava statue, Guru Nangsi Zelnen.

I did not possess a single penny even to fill my car. I told him, I will borrow some amount to get to our destination but he suggested, if we could go together as one of his sons is small, we could adjust in his Santro car. We argued, but went to bed early to rise early and prepare lunch.

Waking up excited, DTs wife had finished preparing Lunch. I packed the lunch, freshed up and readied. We are six in numbers and we had been discussing that number six in our belief system was a bad one. We also tried to get some friends but no one was willing and we are destined to go in number six. 

Praying to reach the destination safely, our journey started at 7:30 am from Mongar. We browsed the Google map questioning the distance between Takela and Mongar, it shows 73 kilometers and suggests that it will take 2:45 minutes to reach the point.  

173 feet largest Guru Statue
Largest Guru Statue loacted at Takela under Lhuntse Dzongkhag, Menbi Gewog. I have read that it was started in 2008 and consecrated on 2015. The Guru Statue was surrounded by 8 choeten, I suppose it was Deysheg Choeten Gay, and 108 small choetens.

Takila was envisioned by late venerable Khenpo Karpo, we received blessings from the Kudung and the Satutue of Khenpo Karpo inside the Statue. To know more about the statue, click this link.https://www.bhutan.travel/attractions/the-statue-of-guru-padmasambhava

With DTs Nima Sir

With my father

 We also visited Lhuntse Dzong and got blessings from Tshepamey. As we visited unplanned, my father and his wife could not visit as they did not bring Rachu and Kabney. I will visit in future as we did not get a chance to visit all the Lhakhang.

On the way to Lhundruptse Dzongchen

As we all know, life is uncertain and we have to accumulate some merit and get cleansed of our defilements and tsokdrips, we have to visit the religious sites in our country. It has been stated in some books that our country has lots of religious sites which are sacred and blessed by many great saints like Guru Rinpoche, Thangthong Gyalpo, Tertoen Pema Lingpa etc.. and all.

Anyway, it's just an amazing day! Hoping for the future too.