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Terrace and roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Gilded columns and Tantric wheel with two does. See 05-01-03/6-13
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Terrace and roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Gilded columns and Tantr...

Gilded columns on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Gilded columns on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet....

Tantric wheel flanked by two does, on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Tantric wheel flanked by two does, on the roof of the Great Temple in Lhasa, T...

Main Hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a skylight on the Buddha of the Future, Matreya. In his lap, a photograph of the Panchen Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Main Hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a...

Main hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a skylight on the Buddha of the Future, Matreya. In his lap a photograph of the Panchen Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Main hall of the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. Light filters through a...

Wicks burn in copper basins filled with yak butter; many-faced, fierce Guardians in background. Great Temple in Lhasa. See 05-91-93/16-23
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Wicks burn in copper basins filled with yak butter; many-faced, fierce Guard...

Statue of Buddha Matreya, the Buddha of the Future, in the Great Temple in Lhasa, Tibet. See 05-01-03/16-23
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Statue of Buddha Matreya, the Buddha of the Future, in the Great Temple in L...

View of Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa, seen through a window in the summer palace of the present Dalai Lama. The palace was finished in 1956, three years before the 14th Lama went into exile in Ladakh, India.
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View of Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa, seen through a window in the...

A narrow bridge, festooned with prayer flags, leads across the Lhasa-River to Kunburi, the Holy Mountain of Lhasa.
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A narrow bridge, festooned with prayer flags, leads across the Lhasa-River t...

Palkhorchoede Monastery in Gyantse, on the route from Kathmandu to Lhasa. The monastery and the "Stupa of the Thousand Buddhas" are surrounded by a fortress-like wall. The windowless tower on the hill- top is used to hang up tangkas (buddhist paintings).
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Palkhorchoede Monastery in Gyantse, on the route from Kathmandu to Lhasa....

Shalu Monastery, in a lonely Tibetan valley, was founded around 1040 and enlarged and embellished by Chinese craftsmen in the 14th, hence the typically Chinese roofs covered with dark green tiles. See 05-01-03/30-40
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Shalu Monastery, in a lonely Tibetan valley, was founded around 1040 and...

Shalu Monastery, in a lonely Tibetan valley, was founded around 1040 and enlarged and embellished by Chinese craftsmen in the 14th, hence the typically Chinese roofs covered with dark green tiles.
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Shalu Monastery, in a lonely Tibetan valley, was founded around 1040 and...