Tibetan Buddhist architecture

kind of fortress

thumb|Gompa Thubten Shedrup Dhargyeling, Mustang in 2015 A Gompa or Gönpa or Gumba ( "remote place", Sanskrit araṇya), also known as ling (, "island"), is a sacred Buddhist spiritual compound where teachings may be given and lineage sādhanās may be stored. They may be compared to viharas (bihars) and to a university campus with adjacent living quarters. Those gompas associated with Tibetan Buddhism are common in Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. Bhutanese dzong architecture is a subset of traditional gompa design.