Thiksey Gompa, Ladakh's most photographed and architecturally impressive gompa. Founded in the fifteenth century, its whitewashed chortens and cubic monks' quarters rise in ranks up the sides of a craggy bluff, crowned by an imposing ochre- and red-painted temple complex whose gleaming golden finials are visible for miles in every direction.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Gompa monastery, Leh
The Gompa monastery overlooking the city of Leh, capital of Ladakh, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in the evening sunlight.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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