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Photographs in Kharngön

Kharngön Gönpa (<i>mkhar sngon dgon pa</i>), a Buddhist adobe block edifice with an interior circumambulatory passage. Façades of the southeast cave complex. The summit formation. The main structure is on the right side of the summit. Probable Buddhist ruin below the castle. Note the agricultural fields in the Tingmur (<i>ting mur</i>) Valley below. Cave with cut windows, domed recess and oblong niches. The outer side of the castle. The dissolving hulk of the castle.

Kharngön in Places


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