Ki Monastery – Lahaul Spiti (H.P.)

Ki Monastery or Key Gompa is likewise spelled Ki, Kye or Kee.
The fantastic cloister is situated at a tallness of 4116m and 7 km from Kaza. It is the biggest religious community in Spiti Valley. Set up in the eleventh century has antiquated Buddhist parchments and works of art. It additionally houses vast number of Buddhist ministers and nuns and a cafeteria.
It is the greatest cloister of Spiti Valley and a religious preparing community for Lamas. It allegedly had 100 ministers in 1855.[2] In the structural definitions given to different cloisters, Ki falls in the “Pasada” style which is described by a bigger number of stories than one and regularly assumes the part of a fortification religious community.
Key Gompa is said to have been established by Dromtön (Brom-ston, 1008-1064 CE), a student of the popular educator, Atisha, in the eleventh century. This may in any case, allude to a now devastated Kadampa religious community at the adjacent town of Rangrik, which was likely wrecked in the fourteenth century when the Sakya group rose to control with Mongol help.
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