I crossed the bridge and huffed and puffed uphill through a maze of boulders for 20 minutes to Chuku (or Nyenri) Gompa (4820m), perched high above the valley floor on the hillside to the west. Chuku Gompa was founded by Götsangpa (1189-1258), a Kagyu disciple, and was the first Kailash Gompa to be rebuilt after the destruction of Cultural Revolution. Inside there’s a highly unusual, original marble statue called Chuku Amitabha originally from India and reputed to talk, a silver inlaid conch shell that is said to have flown here from Bodh Gaya, peacock feathers and the tusks of a sacred elephant associated with Padmasambhava, and a large copper pot brought from India by Naropa.