Day 7: Shigatse - Shegar
August 27th 2006 We visited another monastery today. Tashilunpo Monastery in Shigatse. From afar, you could really see it's grandeur with "layers" of chapels by the foot of Tara Mountain.
Inside Tashilunpo, there's this chapel called the Maitreya Chapel which houses the biggest Future Buddha statue! According to the T
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