Dirapuk Gompa (4890m) shines in a brief sunny period among the rain and hail. The Gompa takes its name from the words dira (meaning ‘female-yak-horn’) and puk (cave). The great monk Götsangpa meditated her, supposedly from 1213 to 1217, and Buddhists say he first discovered the kora route around Kailash. He was led to Dirapuk by a yak that turned out to be the lion-faced-goddess Dakini (Khadroma), who guards the Khando Sanglam La. Just below the Gompa, another ashram is being built by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji of the India Heritage Research Foundation.