Tsurphu Monastery

Tibet Autonomous Region · China

Tsurphu Monastery, China
Photo: McKay Savage from Chennai, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Seat of the Karmapa and head of the Karma Kagyu school, this monastery sits in a high valley northwest of Lhasa. Rebuilt after mid-century destruction, its halls stand at over four thousand metres among grazing pastures.

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