Brag Monastery, about three kilometeres south of Chentsa county town.
This site has historical significance in traditional folklore; it is believed to be the place where Padmasambhava student and monk Lhalung Baldor fled after assassinating the Tibetan emporer of the day, Langdarma, in the early 840s CE. Langdarma is thought to have been a Bon devotee and persecuter of Buddhists. This is the reason why the sage Lhalung Baldor murdered him. Folklore has it that the
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