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Located on the way to the base camp of Mount Everest, Tengboche
Monastery is visited by over 30,000 people a year. Destroyed once
by an earthquake and again by a fire, rebuilding the monastery has
become very important to the Nepalese and Sherpa communities
because of its cultural significance.
many of them have become involved in making Tibetan sou-
venirs, carpets, and
thanka
(banner-like paintings), which are
very popular among tourists in Nepal.
Sherpas are the world-famous ethnic group that lives in
the Khumbu (Everest) region of the Himalayas. They migrated
to Nepal from the Kham of Tibet in the late 1400s. Sherpas
follow and celebrate Tibetan Buddhism. Monasteries such as
