Gyantse

Gyantse Dzong

Walking up the dzong.

A view of the town.

Palchor monastery as seen from the top of the dzong.

Walking through the town.

Two girls posing for a picture.

The Gyantse Kumbum, a three-dimensional mandala containing 108 chapels of religious murals and statues. the facutly discussed at length different classificatory schemes for the Kumbum (the most widely held view for instance, is that the different levels of the Kumbum are thought to correspond to a 4-fold classification of the tantras).

A mandala inside the Kumbum.