Located on the foot of Drolmari or Tara’s mountain, tashillimpo monastery  is one of the huge Monasteries of Gelugpa or Yellow Hat Sect in China and the biggest Tibetan Gelugpa Buddhism monastery in back Tibet area. Standing on a whooping area of around 300,000 sq. m it is also called the Heap of Glory. It is known as a seat of the Panchen Lama who is considered to be the second most important religious leader of Tibet. It houses biggest statue of sitting Maitreya buddha.