Mustang town center
Kal Bhairab statue gets renovation
The Deity of Lord Vishnu in Budhanilkantha
Creeping through very cramped rock boulders
Myself in front of thousand prayer flags
Drolma La pass 5.665 m
The Kailash peak
Entrance door to the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong
Chorten on the way to the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong
View from Trongsa town to the Trongsa Dzong
Trongsa, Trongsa Dzong and Ta Dzong
Kyichu Lhakhang Monastery
Kyichu Lhakhang
Kyichu Lhakhang temple in the Paro Valley
Bhutanese little ladies in the yard of the monaste…
Buddha image in Phra Pathom Chedi
Lying Buddha image in the Phra Pathom Chedi
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Nāga steps to Phra That Satcha in Tha Li
Budai image
Abbot of the monastery
Wat Ratchanadda at night
Ganden Monastery 55 km outside Lhasa
Seralung Gompa
Stupas at the Seralung Gompa entrance
Choerten in Toling Monastery
Kumbum Stupa in Gyantse
Pilgrims step in the Toling Monastery
Ganden Monastery near Lhasa
Dukezong village beside the Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery new constactions
Songzanlin Monastery
Main entrance to the Songzanlin Monastery
Inside the Songzanlin Monastery
Songzanlin Monastery
Circumambulate the stupa
The eyes of Buddha
Bodnath stupa in sunlight
Bodhnath stupa and prayer flags
Swayambhunath Complex Kathmandu Nepal
Prayer flags at Swayambhunath
Swayambhunath Stupa
Bodnath
Get to the Gopura of the second level
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Chorten inside Mustang town
Efforts to develop Mustang since the end of the Khampa resistance have been sporadic and largely damaging to the Tibetan Buddhist culture of Mustang. The government of Nepal attempted to integrate Mustang by sending Hindu teachers, police, and aid workers who taught only Hindu and western beliefs, language, and culture. This was coupled with numerous ineffective attempts to bring electricity to Mustang. Only recently has Mustang become open to foreigners and now faces an additional set of challenges in the integration of western ideas. Tourism is a mixed blessing for Mustang. While it may be damaging by exposing Mustangis to the vastly differing lifestyles and values of the modern world, it also has spawned genuine interest in the unique people, temples, and landscape of Mustang. Recently, foreign aid groups have: Funded a school in the capitol city of Lo Manthang that teaches the traditional Mustangi culture, begun preservation efforts on very poorly cared for temples and monasteries, and built medical facilities. The people of Mustang (the Lo-pas) have always had to adapt to survive in the arid environments of Mustang and they will undoubtedly continue to meet these new stresses on their traditional culture with the religious fervor, tenacity, and keen business sense for which they have been recognized for centuries.
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