The legend of Red House in Kagbeni, Mustang, Nepal, seems to go a long way back, certainly worthy of being probed. Stay here and find out for yourself!
Kathepul
Kagbeni
33103
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There is no record of and no one in the region exactly remembers when it was built. Pema Doma a 57 old owner of the house who lived her entire life in the village can only recall her parents saying that the woods that built the house were fetched from the nearby jungle, which now stands as a barren land.
The house is fairly large, lodging 14 bedrooms, with 10 attached bathrooms, the other 4 being standard rooms with common toilets. A beautiful Tibetan structure with a ghumba (Tibetan Shrine) of its own, storing Tibetan text books and a 5 ft tall Buddha statue enigmatically dotting the center, one can almost feel the mysterious awe mixed with divine sense of peace and solitude of its own kind! The Buddha statue is the second highest in the Mustang region with the first one being in LoManthang.
It is said that once the west side of the building had collapsed, which now has been transformed into a meditation room, and at another occasion, during a ritualistic prayer (puja), the east section of the house was caught up in fire when one of the helpers had left the fire unattended. Coincidently or incidentally during both the times, the center of the building holding the ghumba appeared unscathed. People believe that this was possible due to divine power and presence of lord Buddha! Some locals still come to pay visit and offer their prayers in the ghumba.
Another intriguing history of the house is that, that it was used by Khampa warriors, then fighting the Chinese, to store ration and other goods to be distributed to the other Khampas living in the nearby villages and jungles like Khesang (now Mountain War Training School) and as far as some part of Manang (Cheko, Khang brathang). General Wangdi leading the war lived in the upper room of the house in many oaccasions, who had refused to surrender to the Royal Nepal Army, was finally killed near Dolpa.
