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Photographs in Asia

Funerary structure FS2. Funerary structure FS1. One of the site’s structures. Structural traces. Funerary structure FS3 (?). Funerary structure FS1. Note the various compartments in this structure. Funerary structure FS5. Funerary structure FS4 (Site 2).
Götsang Drak (<i>rgod tshang brag </i>). The most prominent revetment segment in the upper complex. The lower complex. Note the stone buttressing against the formation, part of a staircase that linked the lower and middle complexes. The upper complex (its west wall stands next to the individual in the image). Note the prayer flag mast on the very summit. The summit of Khyungri (<i>khyung ri </i>) (right foreground). The scintillating azure blue waters are those of Dangra Yutso (<i>dang ra g.yu mtsho</i>). Funerary structure FS12 (center of the image). Note how the structure is elevated above the surrounding plain. The well developed east and north sides of funerary structure FS4. The site, seen from the north.
The wall remnant on the forward rim of funerary structure FS7. The well delineated walls of funerary structure FS88. Funerary structure FS40. One of the burial chambers in funerary structure FS2. Defunct farm fields. Note the valley’s watercourse and viable fields in the distance. Defunct agricultural parcels and retaining walls. Funerary structure FS5. The cutaway portion in the middle of the structure is part of the illicit excavation that was carried out here. The highly disrupted remains of funerary structure FS2.
Funerary structure FS3. Funerary structure FS2. The site, seen from the east. The walls of the enclosure are clearly visible. Kharngön Gönpa (<i>mkhar sngon dgon pa</i>), a Buddhist adobe block edifice with an interior circumambulatory passage. Ruins at the summit of Takla Khar. The high point rammed-earth structure amid more deteriorated remains. One of the highly deteriorated rammed-earth structures. Lhasa and the Potala

Asia in Places


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