In the beautiful Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh is located the Dhankar Monastery. The monastery exhibits an image of `Vairocana` or Dhayan Buddha consisting of four complete figures seated back to back. It also has Buddhist scriptures in Bhoti language and relics in the shape of paintings and sculptures as its belongings. Other than these, there are two Gompas housed in the monastery. Those are Lha Opa Gompa and Lkhang Gompa. The Lha Opa Gompa is supposed to date back to 12th century. The second Gompa represent the life of Buddha in its splendid murals.