Samye Monastery

There are coaches start from Lhasa, you can get off in Samyedukou (桑耶渡口), the trip takes about 3 hours and fare 27 Yuan per capita. You can also take bus from Zedang Town to get off at Samyedukou, the fare is 27 Yuan also. Afterwards, you take a mobile boat to cross the Brahmaputra for fare 360 Yuan per boat.

Samye Monastery has a good name of the “First Monastery in Tibet”. It is the first monastery in Tibetan Buddhism combined the Buddha, power of ways and monks. The murals inside are rich in contents of which the most famous is the 92 m length called “The Historical Record”, it tells about the history and legend of Tibetan religion.

Because the trip is quite long, so you can lodge for a night in a small hostel inside the monastery for about 15 to 40 RMB Yuan per capita.

The monastery treasured various kinds of religious articles that Master Lianhuasheng----the founder of the monastery - used for Buddhism ceremonies.