Pelkor Monastery is the main monastery in Gyantse

  Pelkor Monastery is the main monastery in Gyantse, Gyangzê County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, in the Nyangchu river valley. It is also called the Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse. The monastery precinct is a complex of structures. The monastery has been apart from the Tsuklakhang Monastery. The monastery also includes its Kumbum. People believe that this is the largest such structure in Tibet. The most famous part of the monasery is its 108 chapels scattering in its several floors and the old Dzong or fort.

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  Pelkor Chode monastery was once a multidenominational complex of monasteries. Today much of the sprawling courtyard, enclosed by walls that cling to the hills backing on to the monastery, is bare and the remaining structures are attended by Geluga monks.
  The entrance is flanked by statues of the Four Guardian Kings instead of the usual painting. Keep an eye out for the jewel-vomiting mongoose. Just by the entrance on the left is a particularly spooky protector chapel. The main chapel is to the rear of the assembly hall. There is an inner route around the chapel which is lined with murals. Inside, the central image is of Skyamuni, who is flanked by the Buddha of the past and future. Jiangba, the jamrese of a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes in the monastery. There is a hall of arhat made during the Ming Dynasty.