chalet de charme SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. For

SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, chalet de charme Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher Sankardev, the faith eschews the caste system and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, prayer hall usually open sided and shaped chalet de charme like an upside-down oil tanker. Beneath the eastern chalet de charme end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal flame, the Gita and possibly a horde of instructive (but not divine) images.

Calling the Tawang Valley a valley just doesn t do justice to its incredible scale; it s more a mighty gash in the earth ringed by immense mountains. Patchworking the sloping ridges of the lower hills is a vast sweep of fields dotted with Buddhist monast eries and Monpa villages. chalet de charme