Rigdzin Drubpe Gatsal Ling Monastery.

Better known as Dongyu Gatsal Ling, this active Tibetan Buddhist nunnery near Palampur was founded in 1999 by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo to reclaim and preserve the Drukpa Kagyu lineage for women. Unlike typical tourist-centric temples, the seven-acre campus is a self-contained monastic community housing over a hundred nuns from across the Himalayas. The site is highly distinctive for its focus on the divine feminine; the main temple's murals and iconography depict female deities and historical disciples, including the 21 Taras and Machig Labdrön, rather than the male-dominated lineages found elsewhere. Visitors can observe a rare blend of scholastic study, debate, and contemplative practice, backdropped by the Dhauladhar range. It stands as a living, working institution of female spiritual scholarship.