Amitabha Monastery
# Amitabha Monastery

Amitabha Monastery is a Himalayan Buddhist monastery in Nepal.

## Overview

The Amitabha Monastery sits on the top of Druk Amitabha mountain overlooking Kathmandu Valley. It is a center for spiritual practice and for humanitarian causes It has a hall that seats up to 2,000 people, a library, administration office for the Drukpa Lineage, a nunnery, residences for 300 nuns, and a medical clinic. It is a refuge for animals saved from butchering and has vegetable gardens to provide food for the center. The hiking trail here are as attractive as the monastery and the surrounding scenarios.

* Amitabha Monastery
* Buddha Amitābha in Himalayan Buddhism, traditional Thangka painting.
