Our Ger in Gurvan Noor for one night
Genghis Khan statue
Idyllic scenery in the temple complex
Embalse de Soria
Malcesine, Lago do Garda
Tso Moriri. Nomad camp and sky at 4700meters
Spiti, near Tibet border at 3800 meters
Tso Moriri sky
Sky near Tso Moriri
Ki Buddhist Gompa, Spiti.
Lamayuru...the road up which we came
Holi in India
Holi in India
Tikka powders
Street Art Valparaiso
Trompe l'oeuil Valparaiso
Robot statues
Street Valparaiso
Remarkable Rocks
Passu, far North Pakistan in 2000
Hunza River.Passu, North Pakistan
Passu Valley, far North Pakistan
Kayaköy (ghost town)
Buddha watching down the hill
Wat Phu Luang a Phra Ubosot in construction
Rotibaker in Loei city
Holy chedi beside the temples building
Quiet place Kaeng Ton
On the night market in Loei city
Food stalls at the night market
Roundabout and the drop bar
Market stall for selling roasted duck and knuckle…
At the riverside of the Maenam Huang
Wat Tham Pha Pu or Tham Phiang Din
Sanur beach Bali
At least the third step
Walking to the second step of the ceremony
Onon Gol (river)
On the way to Kherlen Gol and Khar Nuur (Lake) in…
Memorial at the Khar Nuur (Lake) in Khan Khentii
Landscape on the way to Batshireet
Hilly landscape near Kherlen Gol
Baan Doen city near Dansai
At the riverside of the Mekong
Wat Sri Chan in Baan Na Oo
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Gandantegchinlen Monastery
The monastery was established in 1835 by the Fifth Jebtsundamba, then Mongolia's highest reincarnated lama. It became the principal center of Buddhist learning in Mongolia.
In the 1930s, the Communist government of Mongolia, under the leadership of Khorloogiin Choibalsan and under the influence of Joseph Stalin, destroyed all but a few monasteries and killed more than 10.000 lamas.
Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery, having escaped this mass destruction, was closed in 1938, but then reopened in 1944 and allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery, under a skeleton staff, as a token homage to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of communism in Mongolia in 1990, restrictions on worship were lifted. See Mongolian Buddhism for details.
In the 1930s, the Communist government of Mongolia, under the leadership of Khorloogiin Choibalsan and under the influence of Joseph Stalin, destroyed all but a few monasteries and killed more than 10.000 lamas.
Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery, having escaped this mass destruction, was closed in 1938, but then reopened in 1944 and allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery, under a skeleton staff, as a token homage to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of communism in Mongolia in 1990, restrictions on worship were lifted. See Mongolian Buddhism for details.
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