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Photographs in Golok Nomadic Area

A monastic personal residence under construction. Monastic personal residences. Monastic personal residences. Monastic personal residences. Monastic personal residences. Detail of decoration on the exterior of a monastic personal residence. Monastic residences at the far end of the valley of the Larung Gar [bla rung gar] religious settlement. A view of the Larung Gar religious settlement looking down valley from the monastic residential area on its far side.
The view back down the valley from its far end. Monastic residences. Elderly nuns walking near the Assembly Hall ['du khang]. Unidentified building in central part of Larung gar.  A group of monks loading logs onto a truck. The side of the main Assembly Hall, with the fourth floor residence of Khenpo Jikme Phuntshok. Nuns' personal residences beneath a forest of prayer flags. Monastic personal residences.
A monastic residence. A group of young monks posturing for the photographer. A group of young monks near the Assembly Hall ['du khang]. A group of monks gathered near the Assembly Hall ['du khang]. A group of monks gathered outside the Assembly Hall {'du khang}. The Chinese Temple in the center with Gyutrul Temple [sgyu 'phrul lha khang] and Visitors Hostel behind it. The main Assembly Hall ['du khang]. The Chinese Temple to the central left with the ridge containing the Gyutrul Temple to the upper left and new Visitors Hostel to the upper right.
The pagoda and Assembly Hall. View of the central area of Larung Gar with the Nunnery Hill in back and Gyutrul Temple in the right upper corner. View of the Chinese Temple, Gyutrul Temple [sgyu 'phrul lha khang], and new Visitors Hostel. The main Assembly Hall at Larung Gar [bla rung gar] in the late 1990s. A pagoda style residence built in the 1980s early in the construction of the Larung religous settlement, and no longer extant. Monks taking shelter from the rain along the side of the Assembly Hall ['du khang]. Monks walking along the side of the Assembly Hall ['du khang]. The old Assembly Hall ['du khang] of Larung Gar [bla rung gar].

Golok Nomadic Area in Places


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