About 30km west from Bayi, 4km west off the main road, you will arrive at the stunning Lamaling Monastery. Lamaling Monastery was built in the 1930s as a monastery of the Nyingmapa Sect (the Red Sect), the Lamaling Monastery prides itself in being the largest and the most significant monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingchi Region. It boasts the remains of stones upon which Padmasambhava, founder of the Nyingmapa Sect, left his footprints and the exquisite murals which are rated as a superb feature of eastern Tibet. It benefits from the location in the lower reaches of the Nyang River, an area where it is said the religious contests between Buddhism and Bon once took place.

The octagonal main temple had been wonderfully restored and rises through four storeys. And is draped in long strands of wooden prayer beads. The grassy courtyard in front is home to a few doleful mountain goats brought here from Tsodzong Monastery at Basum-tso. Above the main prayer hall is a kora with four protector chapels in each corner. The other main building, to the right, is where most religious services are held, on 10th, 15th and 25th day of each lunar month. The hall is dominated by a huge statue of Sakyamuni. Pilgrims circumambulate both this building and the main temple.

Admission Fee: CNY 30