Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

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Photographs in John Vincent Bellezza Collection

The site, seen from the west. The appended edifice from the south. The array of pillars and appended edifice. Note the slab-wall fragment bounding the east side of the array in the foreground. The west half of the pillar array. The tallest in situ pillar of the site is in the foreground and the appended edifice is in the background. The double-course slab wall bounding the east side of the pillar array. Some of the pillars in the southwest portion of the array. The appended edifice from the west. A wall fragment of the central complex.
A portion of the south complex. A portion of the central complex. The three complexes situated at different elevations. The formation supporting the ruins (center). Another view of the structure. A freestanding wall fragment. The site’s stone and adobe block carcass. A level 3 structure.
Level 1 structures. The interior face of the freestanding wall fragment. The interior of the structure. The southwest face of the summit edifice with its extremely high revetment. A rounded corner of the outward projecting revetment of the summit edifice. The interior of the summit edifice. The southwest and southeast faces of the summit edifice. Note the triangular loopholes in the adobe-block superstructure. South summit complex structures plunging down from the ridge-top, Khar Barma (<i>mkhar bar ma</i>).
Remnants of tenpa chidar (<i>bstan pa phyi dar</i>) period frescos in the south summit complex of Khar Barma (<i>mkhar bar ma</i>). The sandstone carcass below Khar Barma (<i>mkhar bar ma</i>). In the background is the settlement and monastery of Toding (<i>mtho lding</i>). The south summit complex of Khar Okma (<i>mkhar ’og ma</i>) . The façade of a cave on the lower slopes below the castle. Note the herringbone courses of masonry in this structure. Two of the three cubic masonry structures enshrined in a cave near the castle. The approach to the summit complex. A tiny wall fragment in the summit complex. Inaccessible earthen and stone structures on high points.

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