Travel Reference
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Tibet's first monastery
is a heavily symbolic collection of chapels, chörtens and
shrines arranged around a medieval Tibetan-, Chinese- and Indian-style temple.
The 1200-year-old site is where Guru Rinpoche battled demons to introduce
Buddhism to Tibet and where the future course of Tibetan Buddhism was sealed
in a great debate. The dreamy location on the desert-like banks of the Yarlung
Tsangpo is just superb.
