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Gyantse Kumbum
The Gyantse Kumbum

Making the pilgrim circuit up this 15th century stupa is a dizzying phantasmagoria of sensation as you wind your way up and around increasingly narrow passages, stepping into endless series of tiny chapels full of techni-colored Buddhist images. The red Buddha, the green, the orange, the blue, the huge golden Buddhas half-glimpsed in the smoky dim light.

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