The dark green areas above the red hall in the center of this image are the grass and moss-covered ruins of the extensive damage suffered by Ganden during the Cultural Revoltion. Like every temple and monastery we visited in Tibet, it was a chaotic combination of ruins, disrepair, raw lumber for fresh construction and older reconstructions being painted, filled with statuary, and re-hung with silks. There was a sense of both decay and fresh energy, though the new work felt underfunded, sporadic and slow.