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Inside the main chapel, you suddenly come face to face with this tourist trap: a souvenir shop! They sell tacky yaks, jewellery, prayer beads, pictures, thankas, books and other things a tourist may – or may not – want.
Written Oct 16, 2005
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Inside the main chapel, you suddenly come face to face with this tourist trap: a souvenir shop! They sell tacky yaks, jewellery, prayer beads, pictures,...
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Samye monastery was constructed in year 775 AD by King Trisong Detsen (who was born nearby), which makes it Tibet’s oldest surviving monastery. The original buildings were damaged by civil war, fires,...
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Samye Monastery is Tibet's first monastery, probably built between 775 and 779. Padmasambhava crushed the local demons on the summit of Hepo Ri and consecrated the site for the construction of Samye....
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Samye Monastery - greedy monks!!!
The most boring trip to Samye Monastery imaginable! I mean the scenery was of course beautiful but it was a bumpy road from Tsetang / Zetang and took around 2.5 hours. We realised that the driver was...
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