Stand inside
Pemayangtse Monastery in December
The 300-year-old monastery of perfect purity.
Quick answer. Winter. Snow returns high up; festival lights at low altitude. For Pemayangtse Monastery specifically, December is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Founded
- 17th century
- Order
- Nyingma (head monastery in Sikkim)
- Signature
- Seven-tier wooden palace model
- Month
- December, Sikkim
- This month
- Winter.
Why December here
One of Sikkim’s oldest and most important monasteries, with a seven-tiered wooden model of the heavenly palace.
Pemayangtse, founded in the 17th century, is the head monastery of the Nyingma order in Sikkim: murals and masks upstairs, and the famous seven-tiered carved wooden model of Guru Rinpoche’s heavenly palace, Sangtok Palri, on the top floor.
What to do
Sangtok Palri model
The carved heavenly palace, one floor per tier.
Elsewhere in Sikkim in December
The wider Sikkim calendar this month: Losoong / Namsoong window (Dec-Jan), Gutor (pre-Losar). Dates shift with harvests and moons; we confirm them when you plan.
Pair it with
Pemayangtse Monastery in December, planned properly
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